Dīwān Sayyidī Ibn Abī al-Wafā

Title:

Dīwān Sayyidī Ibn Abī al-Wafā
ديوان سيدي ابن ابي الوفا

Alternative title:

Dīwān Sayyidī ʻAlī al-Wafāʼī
ديوان سيدي علي الوفائي

Creator:

Ibn Wafā, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad
ابن وفا، علي بن محمد

Contributor:

ʻAlā’ī al-Dīn ibn Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shahīd al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Sa‘īdī, former owner
Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Baladī, scribe
علائي الدين بن شمس الدين محمد بن شهيد الدين احمد بن السعيدي, مالك سابق
محمد بن محمد البلدي, ناسخ

Date:

[1482].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 642Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.139b, copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad min al-Baladay An...[?]. Transcription finished ("wa-kāna al-farāgh min naskhih...") Wednesday, 10 Jumādá I 887 [ca. 27 June 1482]. As appears in ex libris on fol.1a, copied for ("bi-rasm") ʻAlā’ī al-Dīn ibn ...[?] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Shahīd al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Sa‘īdī.Former shelfmark: From inner margin of fol.1a "IL 132a" and spine label, "IL 132" (likely supplied by Yahuda).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather (goatskin) with red leather (goatskin) repairs; Type II (with flap) though flap is now missing; may be original, given the contemporaneous dating of the similar cover on Chester Beaty Library Moritz Collection 60 (see Bosch, Carswell, & Petherbridge no.77, p.201); upper and lower cover bear a design blind-tooled with gold paint, consisting of of frame, central scalloped mandorla, and accents; frame has a central motif made with interlocking S-shaped stamps, two fillets on either side, and an innermost fifth fillet painted gold; corners of the frame are marked with diagonal lines of small crosses, similar to the ones on the titlepiece; at center is 10-lobed mandorla, the scallops of which have a double gold painted outline, as well as small circles at the apex of each scallop and small crosses where the ends of each scallop meet; ogival points have simple, three-pointed calyxes atop slightly arched crossbars; interior of the mandorla bears another calyx with additional ogival calyxes, which are also painted gold on the upper cover; within the mandorla an elaborate filled pattern is present, but difficult to see; doublures are of a slightly lighter brown leather, have four-fillet frames and bear small, hand-tooled, sixteen-lobed shamsas with clearly visible centering lines that extend to the edges of the innermost fillet of the frames; in poor condition.Support: non-European laid paper, at least three types are used; one paper is rather thick with chainlines running horizontally in alternating groups of 2 and 3, individual chainlines spaced 11 mm. apart and groups spaced roughly 40 mm. apart; another paper seems quite similar except for having been tinted a brownish-ochre; third paper is of a similar color to the second, but smaller, thinner, more highly burnished, and rather ragged at the edges; the tinted papers appear to have been laid into the quires to embellish the copy.Decoration: Titlepiece on fol.1a consists of a rectangular panel bearing the title in red tawqīʻ above a central panel bearing a circular medallion (shamsah) with 'pendants' (Weisweiler class. 57-60) bordered in gold-painted black double-lines filled with a central pattern of small crosses and carrying an ex libris in red tawqīʻ; piece is framed with an outermost red fillet, a gold-filled double black line, a central series of equilateral crosses that seem to recall blind-tooling techniques, another gold-filled double black line, and final, innermost red fillet; text is polychrome with the main text in black and a variety of other colors used in various combinations for the headings and the dots separating the hemistitches, often with some sort of scheme of alternating colors; in the opening quires, both the chapter headings and the dots are in red, but in subsequent quires the dots may be red while the titles are in lime green;a slate-blue color also often appears; often the dots will be outlined in either black or yellowish-white ink; obviously executed with careful attention.Script: Naskh; small to medium Turkish hand with thin, elongated ascenders and elongated, swooping descenders; generally sans serif; quite legible; fully vocalized; text of titlepiece in tawqīʻ script.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page; single column but with the hemistitches divided by colored dots to appear as two columns; frame-ruled.Collation: IV (8), V (18), IV (26), 3 V (56), IV (64), III (70), V + 1 (81), IV (89), II (93), 2 III (105), 3 V (135), II (139); catchwords lacking; pagination in pencil, Western numerals supplied in cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تم الديوان المبارك بحمد لله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم وكان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الاربعا عاشر جمادى الاول من شهور سنة سبعة وثمانين وثمانة ماية وكتبه العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن محمد من [؟] البلدي انكورية [...؟]"Explicit: " فنحن نحكم ولا يحكم علينا شيء"Incipit: "حروف الهمزة قال رضي الله عنا به حققت عهد مجيتي [كذا] وولاي بشهود توحيدي وحكم وفاي"Title from titlepiece on fol.1a.Ms. codex.Collected poetry of the Ṣūfī shaykh and poet ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Wafāʼ (d.1405), arranged alphabetically according to the final letter of each bayt. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Sufi poetry, Arabic Early works to 1800.

Extent:

139 leaves : paper ; 170 x 130 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 175 x 130 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006815178

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