Dīvān-i Fattāḥī ...etc

Title:

Dīvān-i Fattāḥī ...etc
دیوان فتاحی ... الخ

Alternative title:

دیوان اسرار
دیوان خماری

Creator:

Fattāḥī
فتاحى

Contributor:

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Aḥmad ʻIrfān, former owner
Abū Bakr ibn Rustam ibn Aḥmad al-Shirwānī, former owner
Ḥusayn ibn Shams al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī, scribe
احمد عرفان, مالك سابق
ابو بكر بن رستم بن احمد الشرواني، مالك سابق
حسين بن شمس الحسينى الجرجانى, ناسخ

Date:

[1463].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 344Origin: As appears in colophon on p.172, copied by Ḥusayn ibn Shams al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī with transcription completed in haste ("ʻalá sabīl al-istiʻjāl...") Rabīʻ II 868 [November-December 1463].Former shelfmark: "447 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red-brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures in brown leather with gold-painted central ornament (four-petalled flower), rule-border and accents, as well as border in blind rules ; upper and lower covers carry central blind-tooled scalloped mandorla having fleurons in the manner of a three-sepaled calyx at the upper and lower extremities and filled with interlace pattern (compare Weisweiler W 89-95) all defined in a simple gold-painted rule, as well as tooled border in a series of rules and s-shaped stamps ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion and staining, lifting of leather, etc.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, faint, somewhat indistinct) and grouped chain lines faintly visible (likely in pairs), sturdy and well-burnished, dark cream in color.Decoration: Headings chrysographed.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; exquisite hand ; serifless, with effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 11-12 lines per page, mainly divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: III (6), III+1 (13), III (19), II (23), IV (31), I (33), III (39), 3 IV(63), III (69), VIII+1 (86), I (88) ; miscellany of ternions, quaternions, etc. ; catchwords occasionally present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, in Arabic, reads "وقد وقع الفراغ من هذه الديوان على سبيل الاستعجال بيد اضعف عباد الله الغنى حسين بن شمس الحسينى الجرجانى تجاوز الله عن سيائه وذلك فى شهر ربيع الثانى لسنه ثمان وستين وثمانمائة هجرية"Explicit: "چون تو بر اسرار دیماهی [؟] علیم ختم شد استغفر الله العظیم"Incipit: [Dīvān-i Fattāḥī] "شراب عشق صافی گشت در خمخانه دلها الا یا ایها الساقی ادر کاسا و ناولها ..." ; [Muntakhab-i Shabistān-i khayāl] "بعد از لوازم توبه واستغفار ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.6. p.156-p.176 : [further verses opening "بنام آهنگ از خمهای افلاک شراب فیض فطرت ریخت بر خاک " and likely comprising Dīvān-i Khumārī mentioned on the title page].5. p.153-p.155 : [blank].4. p.65-p.152 : [further poems, likely comprising the Dīvān-i asrār mentioned on the title page].3. p.58-p.65 : [Muntakhab-i Shabistān-i khayāl] / Ḥakīm al-Dīn al-Asrārī.2. p.54-p.57 : [blank].1. p.2-p.53 : [Dīvān-i Fattāḥī] / Muḥammad Yaḥyá ibn Sībak.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of Muḥammad Yaḥyá ibn Sībak (d. 1448 or 9), known mainly as Fattāḥī, as well as Tuffāḥī, Asrārī or Khumārī, accompanied by other excerpts.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry 747-1500.

Time period:

747-1500

Extent:

88 leaves : paper ; 160 x 120 (105 x 67) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006816085

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