- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[1845-1860?]
- Summary
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Well-glossed (though incomplete and ending abruptly) copy of al-Taftāzānī’s (d.1389?) commentary on the popular creed, al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah of Abū Ḥafs ʻUmar Najm al-Dīn al-Māturīdī al-Nasafī (d.1142).
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1054
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper (embossed marks in particular), hand, etc. would suggest mid 19th century, likely late 1850s.
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap), tight back though not fully flush with text block (ill-fitting or deliberate squares) ; board linings and flyleaves in printed pages taken from an illustrated lamp catalog (recycled / reused printed ‘waste’) with entries including printed drawings and descriptions for various types of "Table Lamps," "Glass Reading Lamps," and "Polished Metal 10-line Kosmos Lamps" ; hinges in white textile ; upper and lower covers carry blind-stamped mandorla (scalloped and filled with floral composition), pendants (stamp of lower pendant outline offset on lower cover), border lozenges, and cornerpieces, as well as border of blind rules and annular stamps ; now stab sewn in white thread (stained pink in places), any sewing through the folds virtually impossible to examine ; overall in fairly good condition with some abrasion, lifting and losses of leather at spine ; seemingly ill-fitting text block, as squares do not match (a few mm. at fore edge, a few mm. at tail, about a cm too large at head) and perhaps recycled / reused cover originally crafted for a smaller text block.
Support: Paper of several types, mainly wove with two different embossed marks and machine laid ; opening gathering (through p.16) mainly in a type of wove paper with oval embossed mark faintly visible in p.10, beige in color, well-burnished (burnishers' marks visible), though mould pattern of curving laid lines spaced roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and occasional chain line is visible in leaf carrying p.4 ; next two gatherings (pp.17-48) and final two gatherings (pp.161-180) in another wove type, sturdier, thicker and lighter in color with many inclusions and oval embossed mark visible in pp.21, 25, 28, 172, 174, 175 (partially inked) similar to that in opening type but far more distinct with "фабрики Слободской кордяжск" surrounding initials "Н П" (compare no.152 dated 1856 in Klepikov 1959) ; next four gatherings (pp.49-112) in a machine laid paper with roughly 6 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26-27 mm. apart, no watermarks visible, soft, grayish in tone ; next three gatherings in another wove type with a different oval embossed mark with "С Ф" (i.e. Сурская фабрика) at the center above "П В СЕР[ГЕЕВА]" (see p.145, 149, etc. and compare no.178 dated 1856-1860 in Klepikov 1959), blue-gray in color (between azure and cerulean) and quite opaque, sturdy though fairly thin and soft ; some staining and tears ; a few repairs in machine laid paper.
Decoration: A few keywords rubricated toward opening ; overlining in black and red sets off text being commented upon (al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafīyah) ; diagram in margin of p.18.
Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; chiefly a clear Turkish / Turkic hand (perhaps Transoxanian, Crimean, or Eastern Anatolian) ; serifless with very slight effect of words descending to baseline or gently inclining to the left, elongation of some horizontal strokes, many flattened, elongated descenders, kāf mashqūqah preferred with shaqq (curving upward) on even final kāf, final tāʼ marbūṭah often given as tāʼ maftūḥah, point of final nūn typically set above narrow bowl, pointing (two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots ; a few pages fully or partially in a Turkish / Turkic naskh (see opening pp.1-3 and p.146).
Layout: Written mainly in 8-10 lines per page (single column), though text of final two leaves (pp.177-179) is far more densely arranged with 20-22 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board more clearly evident in leaves of blue paper).
Collation: i, 11 IV(88), I (90), i ; difficult to examine due to tight stab sewing, but appear to be almost exclusively quaternions ; proper catchwords not present though occasionally last word of final line on the verso of a leaf repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; verso of final leaf (p.180) left blank (text ends abruptly on recto, p.179) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.
Explicit: "في كتب الشافعية ان القاضي ينعزل بالفسق بخلاف الامام والفرق ان في انعزاله و وجوب نصب غيره اثارة الفتنة لما فيه الشوكة بخلاف القاضي وفي رواية النوادر"
Incipit: "الحمد لله المتوحد بجلال ذاته وكمال صفاته المتقدس في نعوت الجبروت عن شوائب النقص وسماته ... وبعد فان مبنى علم الشرائع والاحكام واساس قواعد عقائد الاسلام هو علم التوحيد والصفات الموسوم بالكلام ... وان المختصر المسمى بالعقائد للامام قدوة علماء الاسلام نجم الملة والدين عمر النسفي اعلى الله درجته في دار السلام يشتمل من هذا الفن على غرر الفوائد ودرر الفرائد في ضمن فصول هي للدين قواعد واصول ... فحاولت ان اشرحه شرحا يفصل مجملاته ويبين معضلاته ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Ms. codex.
Inventory number "13" on spine label and blue label on lower board lining "13 | Kandahar April '68 | 1 of 14 for 1800 Afs." ; notes in shikastah-nastaʻlīq on upper board lining and abrupt close of text on p.179 ; extensive interlinear and marginal glosses as well as a few marginal corrections, all in hand resembling the main hand, but smaller, more compact and in a narrower line.
- Physical Description
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90 leaves :
paper ;
222 x 175 (120-155 x 90) mm. bound to 230 x 178 mm.