Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldRecord origin: Description in part based on Savage-Smith, E. and Rapoport, Y. (2013), An Eleventh-Century Egyptian Guide to the Universe, pp. 2-4.
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فهو حبي اكفي الحمد لله الملك العزيز في ملكه واقتذاره الذي ملك الوجود يقوته واوجد بارادته واختياره... :IncipitWritten in Naskhi hand, in one column, 20 lines per page, in black and red, framed within double red and black lines. First leaves framed within golden and double black lines.Original cover, blind stamped red leather with flap, in red leather and board pouch, in separate protective case.21 x 15.5 cm. (16.5 x 10 cm.)According to the colophon (f. 325r), copy completed on 10 Rabīʻ al-Akhar 1146 AH [September 29, 1733 AD] in the hand of Ḥijāzī ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūlūnī.MS Arab SM162. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Title supplied by cataloger.Written in one column, 11 lines per page, in black, red and green, framed within double black and golden lines.A fragment, missing leaves at beginning and end.MS Arab 4. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
taʼlīf Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Aydamur al-ʻAlāʼī al-shahīr bi-Ibn Duqmāq.At head of title: Bibliothèque khédiviale.Arabic text in 2 parts, each of which has special t.p.Vol. 5 has a French t.p. and a preface in French signed Dr. Vollers.Vols. 4-5.تأليف إبراهيم بن محمد بن ايدمر العلائى الشهير بابن دقماق.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2009. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project). Copy digitized: Widener Library: Gibb 6506.103
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).
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 219Origin: As appears in colophon on p.168, Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī wa-ṭuruqih copied by Dāwūd ibn Buqṭur with transcription finished 13 Amshīr 1387 lil-Shuhadāʼ al-Abrār (Era of Martyrs or Era of Diocletian) [February 1671]. A note beside the colophon describes the manuscript exemplar from which this copy was made. As appears on p.185, transcription of Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah...etc. completed 2 Ṣafar 1082 [June 1671].Accompanying materials: Papyrus fragements in folded sheet of bond paper just inside front cover.Binding: Pasteboards covered in red cloth with red leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western binding ; flyleaves and pastedowns in European wove paper ; sewn originally in four stations (threads gone), now resown in white thread, ten stations ; overall in fair condition with some staining, abrasion, lifting of spine leather, etc.Support: European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 18 mm. apart (vertical), and crown-star-crescent watermark ; sturdy and well-burnished ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the front and back of the codex.Decoration: Section headings, keywords, abbreviation symbols, and numerals rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of four v-signs forming a cross, three inverted commas, hāʼ surrounded by four dots or four inverted commas, etc. in red and black ; written area of incipit page surrounded by red rule-border ; numerous tables and diagrams (see p.52, p.54, p.121, etc.).Script: Naskh ; mainly in a large, clear Egyptian hand ; virtually serifless, though right-sloping head-serifs appear on occasional lām and free standing alif ; mainly curvilinear descenders ; open and closed counters ; elongation of horizontal strokes with occasional sweeping tails ; yāʼ of fī mainly mardūdah ; pointing in distinct dots ; sīn marked with ʻalāmat al-ihmāl in the form of a stroke looking like an inverted caret ; section headings in a bold, seriffed naskh ; final work and excerpts in different hands.Layout: Written mainly in 19 lines per page ; mainly single column but text of the urjūzah divided to two columns ; numerous tables ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident).Collation: i, 2 II (8), VI (20), VI+1 (33), VI (45), VIII (61), III+1 (68), III (74), V (84), III (90), I+1 (93), III (99), II (103), i ; quiring very difficult to discern ; binion of ruled wove paper added at both the opening and the close of the codex ; several leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Graeco-Coptic numerals, accompanied by foliation in purple ink with corresponding Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals, in the centr of the upper margin of the recto of each leaf ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes added leaves).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم كتاب الاقبطي بمعونة الرب جل اسمه على يد اضعف خلق الله داوود بن بقطر بالاسم قسيس [؟] بالقاهرة المحروسة في ثالث عشر من شهر امشير سنة الف وثلاثمائة وسبعة وثمانين للشهداء الابرار يرحمنا الرب بصلواتهم امين في الايام الابوية السيدية البطريوكية المرقصية انبا متاووس الرب يديم ايامه في هدؤ وسلام امين ..."Title from opening on p.10.Ms. codex.8. p.198-p.206 : [blank].7. p.186-p.197 : [assorted excerpts].6. p.169-185 : Kitāb mubārak yashtamilu ʻalá maʻrifat ṭāliʻ al-sanah al-shamsīyah wa-ikhrāj al-ṭāliʻ fī ayy burj min al-ithná ʻashar burj al-musammá bi-al-Shiʻrah al-Yamānīyah wa-asmāʼ al-ithná ʻashar burj wa-al-saʻd minhum wa-al-naḥs.5. p.17-p.168 : Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.4. p.10-p.16 : Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.3. p.10-p.168 : Kitāb yashtamilu ʻalá al-Abuqṭī / al-Asʻad Ibn al-ʻAssāl.2. p.9 : [excerpt of a horoscope?].1. p.1-p.8 : [blank].Clear copy of a work by al-Asʻad Abū al-Faraj Hibat Allāh Ibn al-ʻAssāl addressing the Coptic calendar, dates of holidays and fasts and their calculation, as well as the calendars and holidays of the Jews and Muslims. Opens with an Urjūzah fī maʻrifat al-Abuqṭī wa-ḥisāb al-ṣawm al-muqaddas wa-al-Fiṣḥ wa-al-aʻyād wa-ghayr dhālik (pp.10-16) and continues with a Mukhtaṣar Ḥisāb al-Abuqṭīyāt (pp.17-168). Followed by a work on the signs of the zodiac (abrāj) and their interpretation for fortune or misfortune.
Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīḵāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Accounts on behalf of the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of two, a half, a third and an eighth (dirham?) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, of the judge Abū ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Bahār and the elder accountant Sadīd al-Dawla Abū l-Faraj ʿAbd al-Masīḥ b. Qūrīl. Dated 27th Ramaḍān 405 AH (= March 1015 CE).Condition: Torn, holes, slightly rubbedLayout: 13 lines (recto; verso is blank)
Recto: Receipt relating to the tax farm of Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb written by Mīḵāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ, the cashier, and registered by the Office of Supervision: Abū l-Ḥasan b. Wahb has paid the sum of three, a third, a sixth and an eighth (dirhams) for the estates in Al-Fayyūm, under the supervision of the judge Ṯiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla wa-Amīnuhā, of the protégé of the commander of the faithful Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Bahār, and the accountant Abū l-Sarī Theodor b. Yuḥannis. Dated 5th Ramaḍān 403 AH (= March 1013 CE). Verso: clerical notes.Condition: HolesLayout: 12 lines (recto); 4 lines (verso)