- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[1712].
- Subjects
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Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh,
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Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, /
d. 1274 or 5.
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Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh, / d. 1274 or 5. /
Wiqāyat al-riwāyah.
Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd,
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Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, /
-1346 or 1347.
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Maḥbūbī, ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd, / -1346 or 1347. /
Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah.
Manuscripts, Arabic
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Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan
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Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor.
Hanafites
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Hanafites /
Early works to 1800.
Islamic law
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Islamic law /
Interpretation and construction
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Islamic law / Interpretation and construction /
Early works to 1800.
- Summary
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Fine copy of the gloss by Yūsuf ibn Junayd Akhī Chelebī (Ahi Çelebî) on Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah by Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Aṣghar (al-Thānī) ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī, itself a commentary on Wiqāyat al-riwāyah fī masāʼil al-Hidāyah by Maḥmūd ibn Ṣadr al-Sharīʻah al-Maḥbūbī, an epitome on the celebrated work of Ḥanafī fiqh, al-Hidāyah by ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī. (see Isl. Ms. 86 and Isl. Ms. 97 for other ms. copies of this work). Preceded by an excerpt of a gloss upon a commentary on Sūrat al-Qadr (pp.1-8) and followed by table of contents (pp.646-648), closing excerpt (p.649), and authorial colophon in different hand (pp.650-651).
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 558
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.645, transcription completed 7 Rajab 1124 [ca. 10 August 1712].
Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- c. Two inserts carrying notes (paginated pp.281-82 and pp.633-34).
Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and fore edge flap, "IL 133" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped central mandorla filled with vegetal composition (compare Déroche class. OAi) ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in dull pink or light brown thread, two stations ; endbands virtually gone, though traces of headband remain ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.
Support: European laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), watermarks including three crescents (81 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.12, 17, etc.) and crown-star-crescent (76 mm. tall, see p.10, 19, etc.), and countermark of "V G" under trefoil (see p.12) ; light cream in color, sturdy and well-burnished to glossy.
Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.
Script: Naskh ; mainly a fine, compact Turkish hand ; partially but irregularly serifed with right-sloping head-serifs on free-standing alif and other ascender letters, effect of tilt to the left, occasional effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders with some sweeping, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured with assimilation of initial alif with following lām, dot of final nūn with bowl, etc. ; hand changes at p.629, from there to p.649 text supplied in a nastaʻlīq (talik), sans serif with effect of tilt to the right ; final two leaves of the text in still a different naskh ; opening excerpt in a naskh with some influence of nastaʻlīq (talik), a clear Turkish hand, virtually serifless with effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated) and tilt to the left, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, freely ligatured.
Layout: Written mainly in 21 lines per page ; opening excerpt in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: I (2), 32 V(322), I (324) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes some inserts and mistakenly skips ahead from p.275 to p.277 and from p.277 to p.279).
Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "سوده [الحرف الاخير مشطوب] الحقير [كذا] هذه الاوراق في سنة اربع وعشرين ومائة والف السبع في شهر رجب المرجب في نصفه يوم پنجشنبه قرب غروب الشمس"
Explicit: "وان لم يمتد اعتقاله او لم يعلم اشاراته لم يكن حكمه حكم الاخرين فلا يعتبر اشارته و كتابته تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب"
Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي شرح صدر الشريعة الغراء ... وبعد فان تكميل النفوس الانسانية بالفضائل القدسية و تحليتها بالخصائل الانسية... فشرعت فيها ثانيا بعد ايابي من تلك الاراضي المقدسة ... وسميتها بذخيرة العقبى في شرح صدر الشريعة العظمى..."
Title from opening matter on p.12.
Ms. codex.
Several former owners' marks on recto of opening added leaf (p.1) including oval seal impression, effaced statement dated 1168 [1754 or 5], statement in name of Hüseyin Ömer Paşazade (حسين عمر باشا زاده), statement dated 1201 [1786 or 7] in name of Osman, müftü in Diyarbakır (آمد) and son of Ebubekir Efendi, Kuçuk Ahmetzade (d.1776, see Osmanlı müellifleri vol.2, p.311), accompanied by his oval seal impression (compare statement in Isl. Ms. 540), reads "من كتب الفقير اليه عز شانه عثمان المفتى بامد ابن ابو بكر افندى كوجوك احمد زاده عفى عنه ١٢٠١" ; kabīkaj invocation on 'title page' (p.9) (يا كبيكج) ; also on 'title page' (p.9) an inscription listing death date for the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I (28 Ṣafar 1168 [ca. 14 December 1754]) ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses ; occasional marginal corrections.
- Physical Description
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324 leaves :
paper ;
214 x 160 (160 x 95) mm.