Kitāb ʻIṣām al-Dīn Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah ...etc
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Kitāb ʻIṣām al-Dīn Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah ...etc
كتاب عصام الدين شرح الرسالة السمرقندية ... الخ - Alternative title:
- عصام للسمرقندية
عصام على السمرقندية - Creator:
- ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad
عصام الأسفرايني ، إبراهيم بن محمد - Contributor:
- Heyworth-Dunne, J. former owner
ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Bakrī al-Ṣiddīqī, former owner
ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Mawāhib al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī
عبد الباقي البكري الصديقي، مالك سابق
عبد الله ابو المواهب الصديقي البكري - Date:
- [1680-1720?].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 943Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; each work copied separately ; paper, hand, etc. would suggest late 17th or early 18th century.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 92Binding: Pasteboards covered in marbled paper (salmon, pink, orange, blue) with light brown leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; boardlinings in pink-tinted laid paper ; serving more as a wrapper for the unsewn leaves (only a few bifolia still intact) ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, staining, moisture damage, losses of leather and paper, foreedge flap detaching, opening leaves detached and split, etc.Support: European laid paper of two types ; opening type with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-23 mm. apart (horizontal), three crescents watermark (parallel to chain lines, see pp.4, 8-9) and "PR" countermark, creamy, sturdy, burnished to glossy ; second work on a different type (trimmed to a different size) with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 27-28 mm. apart (horizontal), three crescents watermark (perpendicular to chains, 84 mm. long, see pp.50,55) and "Vd" countermark (see p.53).Decoration: Keywords, assages of text being commented upon, occasional vocalization, and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; two main hands ; opening work in a clear Egyptian hand in a medium line, partially but irregularly seriffed with small right-sloping head-serifs on occasional lām, etc., effect of tilt to the left, open and closed counters, pointing mainly in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ, kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; second work in a clear Egyptian or Syrian hand in a thin line, partially but irregularly seriffed with dramatic inclination to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, marked elongation of vertical strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 11 and 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: VI-1 (9), V (19), I (21), V-1 (30) ; catchwords present ; final quire trimmed to a different size ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah] "Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الشرح المبارك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد افقر العباد واحوجهم الى ربه العلي الفقير علي الواحي المالكي غفر الله له وللمسلمين تم"Explicit: [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah] "في مقام شدة الاهتمام بالايضاح والحمد لله على تمام الاصباح بعد الظلام المحوج الى المصباح ونرجو الانتظام به في سلك دعاء الطلبة في الصباح والروح والله اعلم" ; [Nubdhah fī al-alghāz] "قلب اسمه ظهر وفي معاقيه [؟] اتسهر وهذا اخر الكلام"Incipit: [Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah] "يقول العبد المفتقر الى الطاف ربه الخفية عصام الدين بن محمد ... ان احسن ما تزاد به النعم الوفية وتدفع به البلية في البكرة والعشية الحمد لله الواهب العطية اي كل عطية والعطية المعهودة التي نزلت فيها السورة ..." ; [Nubdhah fī al-alghāz] "الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فهذه بعض الغاز تشرح الخاطر ويقطع بها الطريق المسافر فاقول ومن الله القبول وعليه التكلان وبه المستعان ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. composite codex.5. p.60 : [excerpts of other riddles (alghāz) in verse].4. p.59 : [mainly blank].3. p.43-p.58 : Hādhihi Nubdhah fī al-alghāz / ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Mawāhib al-Ṣiddīqī Sibṭ al-Ḥasan.2. p.42 : [blank].1. p.1-p.41 : Kitāb ʻIṣām al-Dīn Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah / ‘Isām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻArab Shāh al-Isfarāyīnī.Fine copy of the commentary by ‘Isām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻArab Shāh al-Isfarā’inī (al-Isfarāyinī) (d.1537) upon al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah, a work on metaphor (istiʻārah) by Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr al- Samarqandī (ca. 1483), followed by a a brief selection of alghāz (riddles) in verse by ʻAbd Allāh Abū al-Mawāhib al-Ṣiddīqī al-Bakrī Sibṭ al-Ḥasan (fl. 1643).
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr, 15th cent. Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic poetry 1258-1800.
Riddles, Arabic Early works to 1800.
Metaphor Early works to 1800.
Arabic language Figures of speech Early works to 1800.
Arabic language Rhetoric Early works to 1800. - Time period:
- 1258-1800
- Extent:
- 30 leaves : paper ; 207 x 158 (133 x 79) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
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