Ladhdhat al-sam‘ fī waṣf al-dam‘

Title:

Ladhdhat al-sam‘ fī waṣf al-dam‘
لذة السمع في وصف الدمع

Alternative title:

Tashnīf al-samʻ bi-insikāb al-damʻ
Tashnīf al-samʻ fī waṣf al-damʻ
Ladhdhat al-sam‘ fī ṣifat al-dam‘

Creator:

Ṣafadī, Khalīl ibn Aybak
صفدي، خليل بن ايبك

Contributor:

Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Bayṭār, former owner
محمد بن حسن البيطار, مالك سابق

Date:

[14--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 645Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper, etc. may suggest 15th century.Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and label on lower cover, "IL 310" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in now much damaged green-blue paper with tan leather over spine and traces of dark red-brown leather over edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (originally with flap, though now lost) ; board linings in yellow laid paper ; sewn in heavy light pink thread ; overall in quite poor condition with significant abrasion and staining, lifting and losses of leather, paper and boards, delamination of boards, fully detached from textblock, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (20 in 26 mm., vertical) and chain lines (two groups of three visible) with 6-8 mm. between chains and 44-55 between groups (quite curved, horizontal, see pp.8-9, 6-11 and 68-69) ; inclusions, well-burnished, fairly smooth.Script: Naskh ; an elegant 'Syrian' or Egyptian [?] hand ; virtually serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, quite rounded with curvilinear descenders, elongation of horiztonal strokes, open and closed counters, freely ligatured, pointing mainly in distinct dots though three dots represented by a curved stroke, sīn also marked, bar (shaqq) of kāf often detached from vertical stroke, final hāʼ looking like two inverted commas one atop the other ; extensively vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 11 lines per page.Collation: V-1 (9), 5 V(59), III+2 (67) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of whole words in the upper outer corner of the recto of the opening leaf of the first two and final quires ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "اخر المنتقى من لذة السمع في وصف الدمع للمرحوم الشيخ صلاح الدين الصفدي رحمه الله تعالى والحمد لله وحده وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلامه وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام الاديب البليغ صلاح الدين الصفدي تغمده الله تعالى برحمته ورضوانه الحمد لله الذي جعلني ممن شما بالعلم وسمح ... وبعد فاني لما رأيت الشعراء قد اطنبوا في ذكر الدمع ..."Title from 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Fine copy of the treatise (consisting mainly of verses) on tears by the well-known philologist and littérateur Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d.1363).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic poetry 1258-1800.
Crying in literature Early works to 1800.

Time period:

1258-1800

Extent:

67 leaves : paper ; 177 x 135 (129 x 99) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006815294

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