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    Kitāb Zubdat al-ʻirfān, [early 18th century?].

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    Fine copy of the work on the ten readings of the Qurʼan as collected by the author from various sources.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 15Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests 18th century. Colophon on fol.156a-156b (p.309-310) indicates text was copied in the city of Tūqāt (Tokat) in the Khātūnīyah madrasah.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 154. Zubdat al-kuran."Binding: Pasteboards covered in orange brown leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in laid paper (under leather turn-ins) ; upper and lower cover carry simple design of incised fillets marking a border, cornerpieces and centerline ; sewn in rose colored thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in green and cream ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting and shrinkage of leather, moisture damage, etc.Support: European laid paper in perhaps a few different types ; main type is smooth, well-burnished and fairly crisp with a yellowish tint, roughly 10-12 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines evenly spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical) ; watermarks include grapes, names (difficult to make out) and crown ; latter type is slightly thicker and whiter in color with laid lines spaced roughly 13 per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (vertical) ; main watermark appears to be a type of scrollwork with three hats ; staining, ink smudges (occasionally obscuring text see fol.130b/p.260), and hole burned in fol.128b (p.256).Decoration: Crude 'headpiece' on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of semi-circular outlines in red with vertical stalks in black and title in red ; red rule-border surroundes the written area ; text rubricated with headings, keywords, sigla and other abbreviations, overlining, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; bold Turkish hand, written in a thick, heavy line ; virtually serifless ; mainly closed counters ; pointing in two dots appears as a line or inverted caret ; slight effect of tilt to the left ; alif lām of definite article occasionally assimilated ; compact, adhereing to baseline though occasionally letters in final words of a line are superscript.Layout: Written in 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 15 V (150), IV (158), i ; chiefly quinions ; fol.23a (p.45) left blank, but with what appears to be no text missing ; final two folios unruled, carry related extratextual material in same hand as main text ; catchwords present (last word of final line repeated on the recto of the following leaf) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (skips two pages between pp.221-223 and includes final flyleaf).Colophon: "Scribal" [?], triangular, reads: " قد وقع الفراغ من تسويد هذه [كذا] الكتاب [؟] المتين يتأبدوا هب القوى والنعم المسنين بديع الشكل عديم المثال كثير النفع قليل المقال في مدينة توقات بمدرسة خاتونية صانها الله عن المصائب الدينية والدنيوية ويسر الختم تمت الكتاب"Explicit: "ولو وقف عليه الهمزة [؟] كان الوقف على هزوا في البقرة لا تبديل لكلمات الله انه السميع العليم ... وبجاه من احببته وبعثته"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من القارئين الذين هم قرؤا القرآن بصحيح الروايات ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة الله الغني حامد ابن الحاج عبد الفتاح البالوى لما قرأت القرآن العظيم من اوله الى اخره ختمة كاملة بالقراآت المتواترة للائمة العشرة ..."Title from 'headpiece' on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the work on the ten readings of the Qurʼan as collected by the author from various sources.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase along with Abdul Hamid Collection (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on upper cover,"British Museum, London. No. 154. Zubdat al-kuran." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "449" in Western numerals on fol.1a (p.1) ; on fol.1a (p.1) ownership statement in name of ʻAbd al-Ghafūr ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd Shukrī accompanied by circular seal impression seemingly dated 1267 [1850 or 1] "السيد عبد الغفور شكرى [؟] ۱۲٦٧", statement reads "تملكه الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير [السيد العبد] الغفور بن محمد سعيد ... زاده" (compare statement and seal impression in Isl. Ms. 143) ; a few other seal impressions on fol.1a (p.1), one circular and quite illegible and the other octagonal with "عبد الكريم السيد" and below it in black ink "الارزنجانى" (i.e. al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Karīm al-Arzanjānī) ; occasional glosses ; a few marginal corrections ; notabilia (side-heads) with sūrah headings

    [Sharḥ al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī ... etc., 1045, i.e. 1636].

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    Fine copy of Yaḥyá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Zanjānī's commentary on ʻAzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī's Kitāb al-Taṣrīf. Wrapped in a cover originally affixed to a textblock containing at least two different works of Abū al-Nāfiʻ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qāzābādī (d.1749), namely a ḥāshiyah on al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ, a portion of ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī's (d.1346) commentary on his own Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, and a commentary on the Ādāb of Birgivî Mehmet Efendi (d.1573). Brief excerpts from these two works thus appear on the leaves still attached to the upper and lower covers.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 143Origin: As appears in colophon on p.121, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ṭūrsī [?]. Transcription finished Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1045 [?] [April-May 1636]. Appears that copyist originally entered خمسون then added اربعون above it.Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 147. Commentary on al-Tashrif."Binding: Serving as a wrapper, pasteboards covered in laid paper (likely originally marbled, compare flap) with spine, fore-edge flap and edges/turn-ins in black leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; originally housed a different textblock ; current textblock sewn in pink thread, two stations but simply set in to cover without attachment to spine or endleaves ; overall in poor condition with much abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, staining, etc. ; repairs in dark brown leather ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 30 mm. apart (horizontal) ; crown-star-crescent watermark, accompanied by countermark of "G V" surmounted by trefoil ; thick, sturdy and well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of three dots.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; virtually serifless, though occasional head-serifs appear irregularly on alif, lām, etc. ; effect of tilt to the left ; many open counters ; rounded ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 6 V(60), iii ; entirely quinions ; added leaves from textblock previously housed in this cover ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes leaves carried from textblock previously housed in this cover).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب رحمة الله عليه [كذا] من عبد الضعيف الفقير الحقير الى رب الكريم احمد ابن طورسى رحمة الله عليه ذي القعدنك اوندردنجى كنى ثلا وقتنده تم الكتاب تاريخ سنه خمسه وخمسون [اربعون] والف"Explicit: "والفرق بين المصدر في النوع من هذا القسم القرينة [؟]"Incipit: "الحمد لله على جزيل نعمائه السابقة واشكره على جميل الائه [؟] المتلاحقة ... وبعد يقول اضعف عباد الله واحوجهم الى رحمته يحيى [؟] الملقب بالامام المعظم ابن ابراهيم ابن عبد السلام الزنجاني لما [رايت؟] قلوب الطلاب من محصلى ابناء زماننا مائلة بهذا المختصر في علم الصرف المنسوب الى المولى المعظم ... عز الملة والدين عماد الاسلام والمسلمين عبد الوهاب ابراهيم الزنجاني ... اردت ان [اشرحه] شرحا فائقا ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.5. p.124-p.126 : [brief excerpt from Sharḥ Ādāb al-Birkawī] / al-Qāzābādī.4. p.122-123 : [originally left blank].3. p.4-p.121 : [Sharḥ al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī] / Yaḥyá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Zanjānī.2. p.3 : [blank].1. p.2 : [brief excerpt from Ḥāshiyat al-uṣūl wa-ghāshiyat al-fuṣūl ʻalá al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ] / al-Qāzābādī.Kaḥḥālah, ʻUmar Riḍā. Muʻjam al-muʼallifīn. Beirut, 1993.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Yaḥyá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAbd al-Salām al-Zanjānī's commentary on ʻAzz al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī's Kitāb al-Taṣrīf. Wrapped in a cover originally affixed to a textblock containing at least two different works of Abū al-Nāfiʻ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Qāzābādī (d.1749), namely a ḥāshiyah on al-Muqaddimāt al-arbaʻ, a portion of ʻUbayd Allāh ibn Masʻūd al-Maḥbūbī's (d.1346) commentary on his own Tanqīḥ al-Uṣūl, and a commentary on the Ādāb of Birgivî Mehmet Efendi (d.1573). Brief excerpts from these two works thus appear on the leaves still attached to the upper and lower covers.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 147. Commentary on al-Tashrif." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "343" in Western numerals on (p.1) ; also on (p.1) ownership statement in name of ʻAbd al-Ghafūr ibn Muḥammad Saʻīd Shukrī accompanied by circular seal impression seemingly dated 1267 [1850 or 1] "السيد عبد الغفور شكرى [؟] ۱۲٦٧", statement reads "تملكه الفقير الى رحمة ربه القدير [السيد العبد] الغفور بن محمد سعيد ... زاده" (compare statement and seal impression in Isl. Ms. 15) ; a few marginal corrections

    Arabic Sources on Somalia

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