- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[Istanbul and Kilis], [1691 and 1726]
- Subjects
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Mīrzā Jān, Ḥabīb Allāh,
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Mīrzā Jān, Ḥabīb Allāh, /
-1586?
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Mīrzā Jān, Ḥabīb Allāh, / -1586? /
Ḥāshiyat Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Mīrzā Jān.
Mullā Ḥanafī,
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Mullā Ḥanafī, /
active 1520.
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Mullā Ḥanafī, / active 1520. /
Sharḥ Ithbāt al-wājib lil-Ḥanafī.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad,
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Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, /
1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513.
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Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, / 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513. /
Risālah qadīmah li-ithbāt al-wājib.
Manuscripts, Arabic
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Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan
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Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Islam
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Islam /
Doctrines
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Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800.
God (Islam)
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God (Islam) /
Proof, ontological
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God (Islam) / Proof, ontological /
Early works to 1800.
Headpieces (layout features)
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Headpieces (layout features) /
18th century.
- Summary
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Neat composite copy of a collection of texts (majmūʻah / mecmua) pertaining to the Risālah fī Ithbāt al-wājib of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī, opening with a supergloss by Qāzābādī on the supergloss of Mīrzā Jān on the commentary attributed to Mullā Ḥanafī, next the matn of al-Dawānī's Risālah, next the commentary attributed to Mullā Ḥanafī and finally the supergloss of Mīrzā Jān, which ends abruptly and appears incomplete.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 32
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.161, [1] copied by ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá in Istanbul (in the Çavuş Medresesi [?]) with transcription completed Rabīʻ I 1139 [1726]. As appears in colophon on p.242, [2] copied in Kilis, first of Rajab 1102 [ca. 31 March 1691] (name of copyist not provided). Works [3] and [4] lack dated colophons though likely copied at the time of [2].
Accompanying materials: Slip carrying glosses, etc. (paginated pp.235-236).
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 142. Ithbat al-wajib, with commentaries." ; "۳۹۱".
Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather and mint-green tinted paper ; upper and lower covers bear border and cornerpieces in incised fillets ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in dark pink thread, two stations, with primaries in yellow ; endbands in yellow and pink ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of paper and leather, slight spine slant (cocked), etc.
Support: European laid paper in several types ; paper of [1] well-burnished, quite smooth and glossy with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 21-22 mm. apart (horizontal) ; papers of [2], [3], and [4] including one with laid lines 9-10 per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 20-29 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of crown above bar with initials "V R N" above grapes (see p.230, 242, 510, 514, etc.) and 'B B' countermark ; flyleaves in a bright orange surface tinted European laid paper.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.4) in effect of rectangular piece surmounted by semi-circular piece (dome) and vertical stalks (tīgh) all in gold ; red rule-border appears surrounding text of first work ; gold frame surrounds text of incipit and facing page for first work ; all texts rubricated with keywords, headings, overlining, etc. in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas.
Script: Naskh ; several Turkish and or Persianate hands ; hand of [1] approaching nastaʻlīq, serifless with effect of tilt to the right and occasional descent of words to baseline ; majority hand supplying [2], [3] and [4] rather similar, serifless with mainly closed counters, occasional sweeping descenders, interesting form of قوله with waw, lām and hāʼ assimilated in an upward and right-sweeping loop ; hand near close of [2] exhibits strong effect of tilt to the left and descent of words to baseline.
Layout: Written in 25 lines [1], 17 lines [2], 17 lines [3] and 19 lines [4] per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, 10 V(100), VI (112), IV (120), 5 V(170), II (174), 8 V(254), I+1 (257), i ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present (both set apart and simply repeating last word of final line at head of first line of recto of following leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert).
Colophon: [1] "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "كتبه علي بن مصطفى قريه نورشوى [؟] عفى ذنوبه غفر غفر الله ولوالديه واحسن اليهما في بلدة قسطنطنية بمدرسة چاوش ... دار الحديث في شهر ربيع الاول سنة تسع وثلاثون ومائة والف" ; [2] "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الرسالة المتبركة في اثبات الواجب المنسوبة الى المولى المحقق الجلال الدواني الصديقي في بلد كليس في اول رجب في سنة اثنان ومائة بعد بعد [كذا] الف"
Explicit: "قوله ولا بد من فيه من دليل اقول الدليل عليه ان الشيء الاول الذي كان وجود العلة دائرا على وجوده اذا عدم كان يكفي"
Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين قوله ففيما ذكره تفسير او تفريع بطريق الدمج ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. composite codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on inner front cover,"British Museum, London. No. 142. Ithbat al-wajib, with commentaries." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "125" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; circular waqf-seal impression in black ink appears on fol.1a (p.3) and several places throughout reads: "هذا وقف الراجي فيض الصمدي الشيخ احمد ضيا الدين ابن مصطفى الخالدي فمن بدله بعد ما سمعه فانما اثمه على الذين يبدلونه" in name of Aḥmad Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muṣṭafá al-Khālidī (i.e. Ahmed Ziyâüddîn Gümüşhanevî, d. 1893 or 4) ; also on fol.1a (p.3) ownership statement reads "من اثبت الآلاء على العبد المحض محمد سعيد مندلياتى زاده" ; numerous marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections throughout.
- Physical Description
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257 leaves :
paper ;
202 x 140 (130-160 x 50-70) mm. bound to 202 x 145 mm