Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī wa-ṭuruqih...etc

Title:

Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī wa-ṭuruqih...etc
كتاب يشتمل على الابقطي و طرقه ... الخ

Creator:

Ibn al-ʻAssāl, al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh
ابن العسال, الأسعد أبو الفرج هبة الله

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Dāwūd ibn Buqṭur, scribe
Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt
Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik
داوود بن بقطر، ناسخ
مختصر حساب الابقطيات
ارجوزة في معرفة الابقطي وحساب الصوم المقدس والفصح والاعياد وغير ذلك

Date:

1671].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 219Origin: As appears in colophon on p.168, Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī wa-ṭuruqih copied by Dāwūd ibn Buqṭur with transcription finished 13 Amshīr 1387 lil-Shuhadāʼ al-Abrār (Era of Martyrs or Era of Diocletian) [February 1671]. A note beside the colophon describes the manuscript exemplar from which this copy was made. As appears on p.185, transcription of Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah...etc. completed 2 Ṣafar 1082 [June 1671].Accompanying materials: Papyrus fragements in folded sheet of bond paper just inside front cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red cloth with red leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western binding ; flyleaves and pastedowns in European wove paper ; sewn originally in four stations (threads gone), now resown in white thread, ten stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 18 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark ; sturdy and well-burnished ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the front and back of the codex.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, abbreviation symbols, and numerals rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of four v-signs forming a cross, three inverted commas, hāʼ surrounded by four dots or four inverted commas, etc. in red and black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red rule-border ; numerous tables and diagrams (see p.52, p.54, p.121, etc.).Script: Naskh ; mainly in a large, clear Egyptian hand ; virtually serifless, though right-sloping head-serifs appear on occasional lām and free standing alif ; mainly curvilinear descenders ; open and closed counters ; elongation of horizontal strokes with occasional sweeping tails ; yāʼ of fī mainly mardūdah ; pointing in distinct dots ; sīn marked with ʻalāmat al-ihmāl in the form of a stroke looking like an inverted caret ; section headings in a bold, seriffed naskh ; final work and excerpts in different hands.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; mainly single column but text of the urjūzah divided to two columns ; numerous tables ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident).Collation: i, 2 II (8), VI (20), VI+1 (33), VI (45), VIII (61), III+1 (68), III (74), V (84), III (90), I+1 (93), III (99), II (103), i ; quiring very difficult to discern ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the opening and the close of the codex ; several leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Graeco-Coptic numerals, accompanied by foliation in purple ink with corresponding Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, in the centr of the upper margin of the recto of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم كتاب الاقبطي بمعونة الرب جل اسمه على يد اضعف خلق الله داوود بن بقطر بالاسم قسيس [؟] بالقاهرة المحروسة في ثالث عشر من شهر امشير سنة الف وثلاثمائة وسبعة وثمانين للشهداء الابرار يرحمنا الرب بصلواتهم امين في الايام الابوية السيدية البطريوكية المرقصية انبا متاووس الرب يديم ايامه في هدؤ وسلام امين ..."Title from opening on p.10.Ms. codex.8. p.198-p.206 : [blank].7. p.186-p.197 : [assorted excerpts].6. p.169-185 : Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah wa-ikhrāj al-ṭāliʻ fī ayy burj min al-ithná ʻashar burj al-musammá bi-al-Shiʻrah al-Yamānīyah wa-asmāʼ al-ithná ʻashar burj wa-al-saʻd minhum wa-al-naḥs.5. p.17-p.168 : Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.4. p.10-p.16 : Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.3. p.10-p.168 : Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.2. p.9 : [excerpt of a horoscope?].1. p.1-p.8 : [blank].Clear copy of a work by al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh Ibn al-ʻAssāl addressing the Coptic calendar, dates of holidays and fasts and their calculation, as well as the calendars and holidays of the Jews and Muslims. Opens with an Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik (pp.10-16) and continues with a Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt (pp.17-168). Followed by a work on the signs of the zodiac (abrāj) and their interpretation for fortune or misfortune.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Coptic Church Liturgy Calendar.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Calendar
Jewish calendar Early works to 1800.
Islamic calendar Early works to 1800.

Geographic region:

Egypt

Extent:

4, 95, 4 leaves : paper ; 299 x 205 (215 x 129) mm. bound to 305 x 225 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006795689

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