Ḥadāʼiq al-siyāḥah,
[1274, i.e. 1857].

حدایق السیاحة [1274ه, 1857م].

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Main Author
Shīrvānī, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, 1780-1837 or 1838.
Related Names
Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943, former owner.
Language(s)
Persian
Published
[1857].
Subjects
Shīrvānī, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn, > 1780-1837 or 1838 > Travel.
Manuscripts, Persian > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Middle East > Description and travel.
Islamic countries > Description and travel.
Summary
Fine copy of a work by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn al-Shīrvānī (d.1837) relating his extensive travels and Ṣūfic thought, completed in Shīrāz in 1827 before his departure on a final pilgrimage to Mecca, after completion of his Riyāz̤ al-siyāḥah (composed 1237/1821-2) and before completion of his Bustān al-siyāḥah (composed 1248/1833).
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 881
Origin: As appears in scribal colophon on p.586, transcription completed 3 Jumādá I 1274 [ca. 20 December 1857]. As appears in preceding authorial colophon (also on p.586), composition completed in Shīrāz on ʻĪd al-Ghadīr 18 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1242 [ca. 13 July 1827].
Accompanying materials: a. Scrap with title in ink "Hadīqat as-Siyāḥat" (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Recycled card with notes in handwriting of Emilie Savage-Smith [?] "Geog. dict. | colophon gives date | rubrication becomes more & more purple the more recent the MS." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne? No Husselman or Meredith-Owens notes" (paginated pp.5-6).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 30
Binding: Pasteboards covered in tan leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings and hinges in a teal wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal composition) and pendants as well as border in blind rules ; small label on spine carries inscription in French "Dict Géographique Persan" ; sewn in dark pink and lime green thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, fairly good condition (tab extends from spine leather) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with lower cover fully detached, some abrasion, staining, lifting and losses of spine leather, etc.
Support: Wove paper ; highly sized and burnished to glossy, dark cream in color.
Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; overlining in red ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas, hāʼ, etc. in red.
Script: Nastaʻlīq ; compact, elegant hand ; serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing (two and three dots) in distinct or conjoined dots ; passages in Arabic (Qurʼānic excerpts, etc.) in a fine Persianate naskh.
Layout: Written in 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, 24 IV(192), IV+1 (201), IV-2 (207), 10 IV(287), i ; exclusively quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and fyleaves and skips ahead four pages following p.15 with p.20).
Colophon: "Authorial," triangular, in Arabic, reads "قد فرغ من تاليف هذا الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب المسمى بحدايق السياحة فى بلدة الشيراز فى يوم السبت ثمان وعشر من شهر ذيحجة الحرام اعنى فى عيد الغدير سنة اثنتين واربعين ومائتين بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية عليه الف الف الصلوات والتحية" ; "Scribal," triangular, reads "قد كان الفراغ من استنساخه فى يويوم [يوم] الاحد ثلث من شهر جمادى الاول سنة اربع وسبعين ومائتين بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية صلى الله عليه واله خير البريه تمت اتمام شد ..."
Explicit: "با کمال لطف عالم گیر یاد"
Incipit: "حدایق حمد و ثنا و ریاض سپاس بیمنتها مختص واجب الوجودی است ... اما بعد بر ر ای معرفت مد اثر ... الفقیر الحقیر الجانی بن اسکندر زین العابدین الشیروانى احسن الله الیه وغفر الله لوالدیه ... چون این مجموعه از ریاحین الطاف لطایف ... موسوم بحدایق السیاحة کردید و ذکر دیار و امصار را بترتیب حروف ..."
Title from opening matter on p.13 and colophon on p.586.
Ms. codex.
Inscription on upper board lining "her suer 1910" ; possible former inventory marks "156," "2," and "C. 7750." on verso of front flyleaf (p.8) ; inscription in brown and black ink on 'title page' (p.9), in French, reads "Hadiket elsiahat | Dictionnaire géographique de il Djāni ibn Iskender zen ol abidin el shirvāni - 1242 H | copié sur le manuscrit-original à Tehéran en 1274 H = 1857 A D." ; traces of words to be rubricated provided in margins (mainly cut off).
Physical Description
287 leaves : paper ; 355 x 215 (270 x 155) mm.
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