Ḥall asrār al-akhyār ʻalá iʻrāb Iẓhār al-asrār

Title:

Ḥall asrār al-akhyār ʻalá iʻrāb Iẓhār al-asrār
حل اسرار الاخيار على اعراب اظهار الاسرار

Alternative title:

معرب الاظهار
اعراب على الاظهار
معرب زينى زاده

Creator:

Zaynīʹzādah, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad
زينى زاده، حسين بن احمد

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Mustafa Reşit, former owner
Ahmet İmamzade el-Kastamoni, scribe
مطفى رشيد، مالك سابق
احمد امام زاده القسطمونى، ناسخ

Date:

[1783].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 226Origin: As appears in colophon on p.419, copied by Aḥmad Imāmʻzādah al-Qasṭamūnī (Ahmet İmamzade el-Kastamoni) with transcription finished in Shawwāl 1197 [September 1783].Former shelfmark: "342 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "20" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns/flyleaves in gold-flecked yellow-green surface-dyed paper ; upper and lower covers carry gold-stamped (over red-oranged recessed onlays) mandorla (filled with vegetal composition, similar to Déroche class. NSd 7), pendants and cornerpieces with gold-tooled and gold-painted accents as well as guilloché roll border ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and black, damaged ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and crown and grapes (raisin) watermark (see p.6, 20, etc.), heavily sized and burnished, crisp and transluscent though sturdy, light beige in color ; latter gatherings (from p.181) lighter in color and with " C C W" ["G C W" ?] watermark (see p.190, 191, 230, 231, 420, 421, etc.).Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche and flanking floral motifs in gold, red, and green surmounted by a shallow w-shaped piece filled with swirling floral vegetal decoration in green and red on a filed of gold, surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in red and blue and set in a well of decorative bands in light blue, red, white, and gold ; written area throughout surrounded by frame consisting of a series of gold bands with an outer red fillet and a separate red fillet (narrow gold band for incipit and facing page) surrounding the area of the margins ; keywords rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; virtually serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing (for two and three dots) mainly in strokes rather than distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 20 V(200), V+2 (212), i ; exclusively quinions (one anomalous) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and mistakenly skips two pages each between pp.101-102 and 321-322).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وقد كملت هذه المعرب في شهر شوال سنة سبع وتسعين ومائة والف عن يد عبد الضعيف الحاج احمد امام زاده القسطموني غفر له"Explicit: "ويجوز ان يكون صفة رجل حملا على محله القريب كما في الرضي هذا اخر ما اوردناه من الاعراب على اظهار الاسرار بعون الملك الستار ... اللهم اجعله خالصا لوجهك الكريم ... وصلى الله علي سيدنا محمد الذي ارسل رحمة للعالمين وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين وعلى جميع الانبياء والمرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي رفع داء الجهل عنا بانزال قرآن عربي بين الهدى علينا ونصب اطباء العلماء بيننا بمحض لطفه واحسانه وكرمه لنا ... اما بعد فيقول الراجي من ربه الحسنى والزيادة حسين ابن احمد الشهير بزين زاده غفر ذنوبهما وستر عيوبهما لما كان كتاب اظهار الاسرار للشيخ محمد البركي بديع الفضل في الاعصار منطويا على حقائق المباحث المعربية ومحويا على دقائق الاسرار الادبية ... سألني بعض الاخوان ... ان اكتب عليه اعرابا لا يغادر صغيرا ولا كبيرا الا احصاه ... فاجبتهم متضرعا الى من هو عليه هين يسير ... وسميته بحل اسرار الاخيار على اعراب اظهار الاسرار ..."Title from opening on p.5.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the commentary by Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad Zaynīʻzade on Iẓhār al-asrār, the work of Arabic grammar by Birgivî (Birgili, Birkawī) Mehmet Efendi.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, ca. 1522-1573. Iẓhār al-asrār.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic language Inflection Early works to 1800.
Arabic language Grammar Early works to 1800.

Extent:

212 leaves : paper ; 200 x 125 (134 x 60) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006795919

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