Kitāb Safīnat al-mulk wa-nafīsat al-fulk

Title:

Kitāb Safīnat al-mulk wa-nafīsat al-fulk
كتاب سفينة الملك ونفيسة الفلك

Alternative title:

Safīnat al-mulk wa-nafīsat al-fulk
سفينة الملك
سفية الملك ونفيسة الفلك

Creator:

Shihāb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl
شهاب الدين محمد بن اسماعيل

Contributor:

Heyworth-Dunne, J. former owner

Date:

[1845].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 953Origin: As appears in colophon at close, transcription completed 28 Jumādá I 1261 [ca. 4 June 1845] with a note indicating that the exemplar for this copy was a manuscript of the author. A gloss in the margin adjacent to the colophon appears to be dated, indicating that the gloss was entered 18 Shawwāl 1306, corresponding to 15 Buʼūnah 1605 and 16 June 1889.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 102Binding: Pasteboards faced in purple coated paper (embossed with scrolling vegetal design) with red leather over spine, fore edge flap and edges / turn-ins (paper faced, leather edged framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted wove paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, two stations, failing toward center ; worked chevron endbands in dark blue and cream, fairly good condition though primaries compromised and core coming away from tailband ; overall in somewhat poor condition with cover almost fully detached at spine (adhesive has failed and spine lining has torn where primaries sewn through), abrasion, staining, losses of paper, minor pest damage, etc.Support: European (specifically Venetian made by the Galvani firm) laid paper with 7-8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 30-32 mm. apart (horizontal), watermark of crescent (with human profile) in shield (pp.30, 32, 36, etc. and compare Walz, The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan, 88-9) and countermark of "V G" (see pp.28, 34, 46, etc.), quite sturdy, light cream in color, well-burnished ; table of contents at opening on two different machine wove papers ; replacement leaves (carrying pp.85-88, 125-126, 131-132, 203-204) also in a different paper ; some staining.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; two elegant Egyptian hands ; opening hand (through p.118) in a medium line, mainly serifless with effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasional more exaggerated), curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah pointed as yāʼ ; other main hand (p.119 to close) in a narrow line, partially seriffed with small leftward serifs on occasional ascender (usually free-standing alif), slight effect of inclination to the left, spacious with some elongation of horizontal strokes, curvilinear descenders, pointing in distinct dots, alif maqṣūrah usually pointed as yāʼ ; text of replacement leaves (pp.85-88, 125-126, 131-132, 203-204) in still a different hand.Layout: Written in 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: V-4+3 (9), III-2 (13), 4 V(53), III (59), 7 V(129), IV (137), 10 V(237), IV (245), IV-3 (250) ; mainly quinions with occasional ternion or quaternion ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: Triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من نسخ هذه السفينة يوم الثلاث المبارك ثمانية وعشرين خلت من شهر جماد اول الذي هو من شهور سنة ١٢٦١ احدى وستون ومائتين والف من هجرة من له العز والشرف صلى الله عليه وعلى اله تم ١٢٦١ نقلت هذه النسخة عن اصل نسخة المؤلف "Explicit: "واذا اجرت بالاماني فيه ارخها سفينة البحر بسم الله مجرهاIncipit: "حمد لمن حكم على اهل الهوى بالنوى والفراق فصاروا بحيث لو صحوا بالحجاز اسمعوا من في العراق ... وبعد فلما ان كانت الارواح تتروح بالطرب واللهو وترتاح لاستماع الاغاني في مجالس الصفو والزهو ... وسميتها سفينة الملك ونفيسة الفلك ورتبتها على ثلاثة انابير صغير ووسط وكبير ..."Title from 'title page' inscription.Ms. codex.Fine copy of the collection of over 350 song texts (muwashshaḥāt) by Muḥammad Shihāb al-Dīn (d.1857), arranged in larger suites (waṣlāt). Lengthy table of contents at opening outlines the muwashshaḥāt and their corresponding rhythmic types (ḍurūb) within their waṣlāt and musical modes (maqām).

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Folk songs, Arabic 19th century.
Arabs Music.
Songs, Arabic.
Muwashshah.

Geographic region:

Egypt

Time period:

19th century

Extent:

250 leaves : paper ; 220 x 160 (155 x 85) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006832686

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