Majmūʻat rasāʼil
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Majmūʻat rasāʼil
مجموعة رسائل - Contributor:
- ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá Karāmah, scribe
Mehmet Esat Efendi
Ibn Aṣbagh, Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá
Amāsī, Muḥammad ibn Qāsim
Thaʻālibī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad
عثمان بن مصطفى كارمه, ناسخ
محمد اسعد افندى
ابن اصبغ، محمد بن عيسى
اماسي، محمد بن قاسم
ثعالبي، عبد الملك بن محمد - Date:
- ca. 1743].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 657Origin: As appears in opening statement on p.9 and in colophons on p.111 and p.203, bulk of majmūʻah copied for himself by ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá Karāmah [?]. As appears in colophon on p.111, transcription of Bard al-akbād and Nubdhah mukhtaṣarah min Rawḍ al-akhyār completed during the first part of Rabīʻ II 1155 [June 1742]. As appears in colophon on p.203, transcription of Kitāb al-Mudhhab fī al-ḥulá completed in Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1155 [January-February 1743]. Transcription of other works likely completed around the same time. What appears to be date of composition for Takhmīs Bānat Suʻād supplied by fractions on p.239, likely 113-? [1718-1727?].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Three inventory cataloguing slips (and two scraps) in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From inscription on inner front cover and spine label, "IL 31b" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now dull beige laid paper with dark red-brown leather over spine and edges/turn-ins (likely fore edge flap as well, though now lost, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap, now lost) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; overall in somewhat poor condition with significant abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of leather and paper, etc.Support: European laid paper ; opening type with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 22-25 mm. apart (vertical), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with name and crown (see p.12, 18, 19, 25, etc.), "P FABRE" (p.16, 21, etc.) and "LANGUEDOC" (p.14, 23, etc.) ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 23-24 mm. apart (vertical), and crown above name watermark (see p.208, 221, etc.) ; well-burnished to glossy, thin though sturdy, medium cream in color.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and occasional abbrevation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over certain words) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh ; small, clear Turkish or 'Syrian' hand ; mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the right, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, some elongation of horizontal strokes, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.Layout: Written in 15-21 lines per page ; written area divided to two columns to set off verses.Collation: II (4), 5 V(54), VI (66), V (76), III (82), 3 V(112), VI (124) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (prior to collation, thus due to an initially misplaced bifolium pagination skips from p.222 to p.227, then from p.238 to pp.223-226, then to p.239, foliation is correct).Colophon: [Bard al-akbād] and [Nubdhah mukhtaṣarah min Rawḍ al-akhyār] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "حرر في القسطنطنية في اوائل شهر ربيع الثاني من شهور سنة ۱۱٥٥ على يد الفقير عثمان كرامه" ; [Kitāb al-Mudhhab fī al-ḥulá] "Scribal," rectangular, reads "تم كتابه على يد كاتبها لنفسه ولمن شاء الله من بعده عثمان بن مصطفى كرامه ... وذلك في الديار الرومية حماها رب البرية [؟] في ذي الحجة سنة ۱۱٥٥"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.16. p.247-p.248 : [blank].15. p.241-p.246 : Qaṣīdat ʻAbd Allāh Afandī ibn Ḥijāzī / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn Qaḍīb al-Bān.14. p.240 : [blank].13. p.213-p.239 : Takhmīs Bānat Suʻād / Muḥammad Asaʻd [Mehmet Esat Efendi b. Şeyhülislam Ismail Efendi ?].12. p.206-p.212 : [taqrīẓāt for the following takhmīs].11. p.205 : [blank].10. p.203-204 : [assorted excerpts].9. p.133-p.203 : Kitāb al-Mudhhab fī al-ḥulá / Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad ibn Aṣbagh ibn al-Munāṣif al-Azdī.8. p.120-p.132 : [blank].7. p.112-p.119 : [assorted excerpts].6. p.89-p.111 : Nubdhah mukhtaṣarah min Rawḍ al-akhyār al-muntakhab min Rabīʻ al-abrār / Khaṭībʻzādah Muḥammad ibn Qāsim al-Amāsī.5. p.88 : [blank].4. p.86-p.87 : [assorted excerpts].3. p.9-p.86 : Bard al-akbād fī al-aʻdād /ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī.2. p.4-p.8 : [blank].1. p.1-p.3 : [assorted excerpts and contents listing].Fine collection (majmūʻah) of mainly "belles-lettres" (adab / ādāb) works in prose and verse. Contents listing on added leaf at opening (p.2).
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632 Poetry.
Kaʻb ibn Zuhayr. Qaṣīdat al-Burdah.
Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144. Rabīʻ al-abrār.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic poetry 1258-1800.
Arabic poetry 622-750.
Arabic poetry 750-1258.
Quotations, Arabic Early works to 1800.
Maxims, Arabic Early works to 1800.
Numbers in literature Early works to 1800.
Arabic literature Early works to 1800. - Time period:
- 1258-1800
622-750
750-1258 - Extent:
- 124 leaves : paper ; 165 x 113 (115 x 57) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
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