Ḥayrat al-fuqahā khajlat al-fuḍalā

Title:

Ḥayrat al-fuqahā khajlat al-fuḍalā
حيرة الفقها خجلة الفضلا

Alternative title:

حیرة الفقها و خجلت الفصحا
حیرةالفقها و خجالت الفضلا
حيرة الفقها خجله الفصلا [sic]
حيرة الفقها خجلت الفضلا
حیرة الفقها خجله الفضلا

Creator:

ʻAlā Muftī Bukhārī
علا مفتى بخارى

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Pīr Jalīl Burdahʹlīq, scribe
پير جليل برده ليق، ناسخ

Date:

[1475].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 264Origin: As appears in colophon on p.306, copied by Pīr Jalīl Burdahʹlīq with transcription completed 1 Jumādá II 880 [ca. 2 October 1475]. As appears in authorial colophon on p.290 (contribution to the cataloguing from Ali Safari Agh Ghaleh), composition completed 9 Shaʻbān 695 [ca. 12 June 1296].Former shelfmark: "129 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper pastedown.Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather with dull red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (possible repair / restoration treatment) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry central scalloped mandorla with traces of filigreé (now lost) on recessed paper onlays ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and golden yellow, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with losses of onlays, some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and single chains irregularly visible (horizontal), sturdy and well-burnished ; many leaves now guarded ; flyleaves in European wove paper.Decoration: Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche ending in scalloped domes carrying inscription (" الله ولا سواك [?]" ) in foliated Kufic surrounded by swirling arabesque (all in gold) and accented by red and blue dots flanked by delicated floral vegetal composition on lapis lazuli and bordered in gold, white and turquoise bands, surmounted by a row of elegant arabesque in white, gold, red, turquoise, etc. on a lapis lazuli ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area throughout surrounded by narrow gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule ; some keywords chrysographed, others rubricated or in blue ink ; occasional textual dividers in the form of gold discs.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing somewhat inconsistent and occasionally unclear ; partially vocalized.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, IV-1 (7), IV (15), IV+1 (24), 5 IV(64), IV+3 (75), 4 IV(107), IV+1 (116), IV (124), 2 III (136), IV (144), IV+1 (153), i ; quaternions (many anomalous) and two ternions ; catchwords present (occasionally cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Dedication: Apparently compiled for amīr Nawrūz Beg (d.1297) [?], see dedication on p.3 "از لطايف صنع و آثار فضل خود خداوند و مخدوم جهانان امير بزرگ عالم عادل خسرو افاق لشكركس و سپهدار خراسان و عراق نوشيروان عهد صاحب السيف و القلم مدبر امور العالم ناصر عباد الله حافظ بلاد الله المنظور من السماء المظفر على الاعداء المخصوص بعنايت رب العالمين خسرو زمين و زمان صاحب قرآن امير المؤمنين برهان رسول رب العالمين غياث الاسلام و المسلمين نوروز بيگ خلد الله ملكه ..."Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى غره جمادى الثانى سنه ۸۸۰ تم لفقير الحقير پر جليل برده ليق"Explicit: "اين عاريت است والله اعلم بالصواب"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين و الصلوة على رسوله آدم ومحمد وما بينهما من الانبياء والمرسلين وعلى آله البرره الطيبين وصحبه السفره الطاهرين وعلى محبهم ومحب محبيهم الى يوم الدين چون ايزد سبحانه و تعالى بعد از تاريخ هجرت مصطفى صلى الله عليه و سلم بششصد و نودوبنج سال خواست كه دين محمدى را كه بهترين اديانست ... و اين كتاب را حيرة الفقها خجله الفصلا [الفضلاء] نام نهادم انشا الله العزيز ...."Title from opening matter on (p.7).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of a collection of legal decisions compiled by ʻAlā Muftī Bukhārī (Bukhārāyī). Further details on the composition, works consulted, etc. appear on pp.8-10. For other manuscript copies see Dānish'pazhūh, Nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī dar kitābkhānahʹhā-yi Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Shūravī va Urūpā va Āmrīkā: guzārish va fihrist (Nuskhahʹhā-yi khaṭṭī daftar dahum), no.173, p.105.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Islamic law Interpretation and construction Early works to 1800.
Hanafites Early works to 1800.

Extent:

153 leaves : paper ; 240 x 165 (177 x 109) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006804519

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