Dīwān al-ḥaqāʼiq
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Dīwān al-ḥaqāʼiq
ديوان الحقائق - Alternative title:
- Dīwān al-ḥaqāʼiq wa-majmūʻ al-raqāʼiq
ديوان الحقائق ومجموع الرقائق - Creator:
- Nābulusī, ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl
نابلوسي، عبد الغني اسماعيل - Contributor:
- Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad, scribe
محمد بن الشيخ محمد, ناسخ - Date:
- [1763].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 634Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.368b (p.736), copied by Muḥammad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad [...?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Saturday 20 [?] Jumādá II 1176 [ca. 6 January 1763] in Bilād al-bayt [?].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From spine label and inscription on interior of upper cover, "IL 126" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in darkened red-brown leather (color of envelope flap a much more vibrant red), repairs to spine and interior of fore edge flap in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and interior of envelope flap in laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-tooled central circular piece (composition quite similar to Déroche class. NSv 1 or 2) with pendants and simple frame ; in somewhat poor condition with fore-edge flap detaching from lower cover and envelope flap, repairs to joints between the covers and the spine, much abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper with laid lines running horiztonally spaced roughly 13 laid lines in 20 mm. and chain lines running vertically spaced roughly 23-25 mm. apart ; lightly burnished.Decoration: Textual dividers in the form of red discs ; text rubricated with section titles, occasional paragraphs in prose at the beginnings of new sections, and textual dividers in red.Script: Naskh ; fine Syrian or Turkish hand (?) ; virtually sans serif with occasional right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and left-sloping head-serifs on alif of lām alif ligature ; kāf mashkūlah preferred ; elongated, horizontal character with contrast between thicker horizontal strokes and thinner vertical strokes.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; poetry often arranged in two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, V-4(6), 16 V (166), II (170), III (176), 19 V (366), I (368), i ; chiefly quinions ; at least one bifolium and very likely two bifolia are missing from the center of the first quire in the introductory matter of the text (missing text corresponds to p.7-13 of the 1854 Būlāq edition) ; catchwords present but occasionally lost to trimming ; traces of perhaps an earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals (see p.391, 583, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من نسخه ببلاد [؟] البيت بعد صلاة المغرب عشرين [؟] في جماذ [كذا] الثاني على يد محمد بن الشيخ محمد [..؟] من شهور سنة 1176"Explicit: "وما تلى عبد الغني المديح به يخص ذلك الفريح"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي فتح خزائن الامكان بمفاتيح الكرم والامتنان واظهر سره المكنون بين الكاف والنون انما امره لشيئ اذا اراده ان يقول كن فيكون"Title from inscription of 'title page' fol.1a (p.1).Ms. codex.The first bāb of the collected poems of the author, Dīwān al-dawāwīn wa-rayḥān al-rayāḥīn fī tajallīyat al-ḥaqq al-mubīn, with a poem praising Ibn al-ʻArabī at the close. Description provided by Maxim Romanov.
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Arabic
Sufi poetry, Arabic Early works to 1800. - Extent:
- 368 leaves : paper ; 205 x 155 (170 x 100) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
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