Shajarat al-amānī va Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid

Title:

Shajarat al-amānī va Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid
شجرت الامانى و رساله زبدة القواعد

Alternative title:

Shadjaratu l-amani va Zubdatu l-qawa'id

Creator:

Qatīl, Muḥammad Ḥasan
قتيل، محمد حسن

Contributor:

Nuttall, Frank E., former owner
Mīr Mahdī
مير مهدى

Date:

[18--?].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 876Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; hand, paper, etc. suggest 19th century.Accompanying materials: a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO II PERSIAN | Shajarat al-amānī. Rules of grammar explained in Persian followed by a similar work entitled Zubdat al-qawāʻid." (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled card with note in hand of Emilie Savage-Smith [?] "binding by Menzies, London, 1914" (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.7-8) -- e. Tag with "#9" -- f. Slip torn from a ruled notebook tipped-in describing second work with title, author, etc. in black ink "فارسى نثر زبدة القواعد يعنى [؟] خلاصه قواعد صرف فارسى تاليف مير مهدى ..."Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 25Binding: Boards covered in mauve paper (in blotched design evoking marbling) with brown leather over spine and board corners (half binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in 'marbled' wove paper (mainly in beige and blue) ; spine gold-stamped with title "SHADJARATU L-AMĀNĪ VA ZUBDATU L-QAWĀʻID" ; sewn in cream thread over recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in red, blue-green and white ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion of leather at spine and board edges.Support: non-European laid (likely Persian or Indian) paper of two main types ; opening work on a type with 9-10 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct, curving) and no chain lines plainly visible, quite cloudy formation, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, dark cream in color ; second work on a type with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal, fairly indistinct, curving) and irregular chain lines faintly visible (see p.84), cloudy formation, inclusions and fibers visible, thin and transluscent though sturdy, well-burnished, beige in color ; added / replacement leaves in European wove paper.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated.Script: Nastaʻlīq and taʻlīq with elements of shikastah ; two elegant hands ; opening work in a compact nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots ; second work in a taʻlīq with elements of shikastah, partially seriffed with left slopin head-serifs, leftward foot on alif, many swooping descenders (some recurved or reversed), effect of words descending to baseline, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, somewhat freely ligatured.Layout: Written in 19-20 and 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, IV (8), IV-4 (12), II (16), IV (24), II+1 (29), 2 (31), V (41), i ; mainly quaternions ; blank leaves added at opening and close of codex (including final quinion), as well as between the two works ; catchwords present ; pagination in black ink, Western numerals (distinct for each text) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes most inserts and central added leaves).Explicit: [Shajarat al-amānī ] "بلاغت از مقلدان ربوده تمام شد" ; [Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid] "حلقۀ طوق مكر ساخت تمت تمام شد تم تم تم تم تم تم تم"Incipit: [Shajarat al-amānī ] "فصيح ترين كلامى كه از جوش صفا گوهر شاهوار و لولوى آبدار را در عرق خجالت ... قتيل زوليده بيان كويد كه اين مختصر مسمى بشجرة الامانى سطرى جند است ..." ; [Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid] "الحمد لله رب العالمين رضوان [؟] الله على رسوله محمد خان المرسلين ... اما بعد اين رساله زبدة القواعد قليل الحجم كثير الفوائد ... بالتقصير [؟] مير مهدى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from opening matter of first work on p.12 and of second work on p.43.Ms. composite codex.6. p.70-92 : [blank].5. p.69 : [fragments carrying descriptions].4. p.68 : [blank].3. p.43-p.66 : Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid / Mīr Mahdī [?].2. p.34-p.42 : [blank, apart from abandoned opening on p.34].1. p.12-p.33 : Shajarat al-amānī / Muḥammad Ḥasan Qatīl.Careful composite copy of two concise grammatical treatises, Shajarat alamānī, a work on Persian grammar and rhetoric by Muḥammad Ḥasan Dihlavī, known as Qatīl (d.1817), and Risālah-i Zubdat al-qavāʻid, a work on Persian grammar attributed to one Mīr Mahdī.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Persian
Persian language Rhetoric.
Persian language Grammar.

Extent:

41 leaves : paper ; 211-216 x 145-151 (180 x 95, 150 x 100) mm. bound to 223 x 158 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006837281

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