Meidanii proverbiorum arabicorum pars

Sign.: []1, *4, 2*4, A-Z4, 2A-2Q4, 2R

السامى فى الاسامى « L'élevé, traité des noms », vocabulaire de noms arabes et de leurs synonymes, expliqués en persan.

السامى فى الاسامىNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.La 1re section, renfermant cinq chapitres, contient les termes relatifs à la loi musulmane ; la 2e, consacrée aux noms d'animaux, renferme vingt-sept chapitres ; la 3e donne les noms des objets célestes et renferme cinq chapitres ; la 4e et dernière, consacrée aux objets terrestres, contient six chapitres. Commencement : الحمد لله الذى [لا] يتم امرٌ دون حمده. Ce manuscrit est la copie d'un exemplaire qui portait la date de 497 (1103-1104 de J.-C.). Hadji Khalfa, sans avoir vu l'ouvrage, l'attribue à Aḥmad ibn Moḥammad al-Maïdânî. L'auteur dit dans sa préface qu'il dédia son ouvrage à un personnage très haut placé dans l'administration civile (العميد الاعز ثقة الملك شمس الكُتّاب), nommé Aboû ʾl-Barakât ʿAlî ibn Maʿsoûd ibn Ismaʿîl. Le premier feuillet et le dernier ont été ajoutés après coup

Majmaʻ al-amthāl, [1152, i.e. 1739].

Careful copy of the renowned collection of classical Arabic proverbs compiled by Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maydānī (d.1124).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 245Origin: As appears in colophon on p.447, copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Kurdī with transcription finished 11 Jumādá I 1152 [ca. 16 August 1739]. As appears in statement to the left of the colophon, collated by ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Raḥbī al-Shāfiʻī with collation completed toward the end of Shawwāl 1152 [January 1740].Former shelfmark: "467 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) ; "72" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).Binding: Pasteboards covered in red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; doublures / board linings in block-printed paper with repeating square, cross and floral motifs in green and orange on a yellow and white ground ; upper and lower covers carry 'gold-stamped' (now green) scalloped mandorla (filled with vegetal decoration) and pendants, along with tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps outlined by tooled fillets ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in yellow and lavender (or gray), good condition ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, minor lifting of leather, etc. ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal and vertical, fairly indistinct), cloudy formation, sturdy , highly sized and burnished, mainly yellow-tinted ; flyleaves in European laid paper (outermost surface-dyed a dark purple) with watermarks of "ALMASSO" and "GM" under shield / arms with eagle above horse.Decoration: Section headings and text of proverbs rubricated ; written area surrounded by frame consisting of a series of a silver band flanked by black and red fillets ; occasional textual divders in the form of hāʼ or three inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh ; fine, clear Syrian or Iraqi hand ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left, mainly curvilinear descenders, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, elongation of horizontal strokes, partially vocalized.Layout: Written mainly in 35 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 22 V(220), I+1 (223), i ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "وفرغ منه محمد بن احمد الكردي في يوم الاثنين حادي عشر شهر جمادى الاول سنة اثنين وخمسين ومائة والف حامدا لله ومصليا على نبيه نبي الرحمة م م م"Explicit: "وهي المكافاة ويد سوداء وهي المن وقيل لبعضهم ما العقل قال الاصابة بالظنون ومعرفة ما لم يكن بما قد كان تم الكتاب بتوفيق الله ومنه والحمد لله اولا واخرا وباطنا وظاهرا وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله الاكرمين وسلم تسليما"Incipit: "ان احسن ما يوشح به صدر الكلام واجمل ما يفصل به عقد النظام حمد الله ذي الجلال والاكرام والافضال والانعام ... وبعد فان من المعلوم ان الادب سلم الى معرفة العلوم به يتوصل الى الوقوف عليها ومنه يتوقع الوصول اليها ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of the renowned collection of classical Arabic proverbs compiled by Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maydānī (d.1124).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Inscriptions in pencil on verso of front flyleaf (p.2) "467 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and 'title page' (p.3) "72 " ; three ownership statements on 'title page' (p.3), two accompanied by obliterated oval seal impressons, one in name of Murād ibn Khālid Āghāʻzādah (Murat b. Halit Aǧazade / مراد بن خالد اغا زاده ), another indicating purchase and dated 1261 [1845 or 6] in name of Aḥmad Afandī son of (najl) Sulaymān Afandī Ḥāfiẓʻzādah (Ahmet Efendi necl-i Süleyman Hafızzade / احمد افندى نجل سليمان حافظ زاده ), and another in name of ʻAbd al-Ghanī Faḍl Allāh al-ʻAṭṭār ( عبد الغني فضل الله العطار ) ; collation statement in name of collator, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Raḥbī al-Shāfiʻī (عبد العزيز الرحبي الشافعي) appears to the left of the colophon on p.447, reads: "بلغ قبالا وتصحيحا حسب الطاقة من اوله الى اخره بقلم الفقير عبد العزيز الرحبي الشافعي داعيا لما لله بلغه الله مناه وحرسه وتولاه آمين في اخر شوال سنه ۱۱٥٢ " ; numerous marginal corrections ; occasional glosses