En attendant Godot

Ṣaddīqī al-Ṭayyib al-. En attendant Godot. In: Horizons Maghrébins - Le droit à la mémoire, N°58, 2008. Le théâtre arabe au miroir de lui-même - Œuvres de l’artiste marocain Hassan Bourkia et texte du romancier et critique d’art Edmond Amran El Maleh. pp. 195-198

Sharḥ Ḥizb al-Nawawī, [mid 18th century?].

Elegant copy of a commentary by Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī (d.1756) on the Ḥizb (liturgy, prayers) of Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 1277), followed by a condensed version of the Ḥizb (p.142).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 533Origin: As appears in colophon on p.141, composition completed by the author, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī al-Madanī, 9 Ṣafar 1152 [ca. 18 May 1739] in his house in Medina under al-Minārah al-Sulaymānīyah of the Prophet's mosque (المسجد النبوي). Date of transcription for this copy not specified, though paper, etc. suggests mid 18th century, possibly ca. 1743.Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda (pp.1-2) -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas (pp.3-4).Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on lower cover "IL 190" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards (quite thin, semi-limp) covered in red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers carry tooled border in gold ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; sewn in light yellow thread, two stations ; only primaries (in light pink) remain of endbands ; overall in fair condition with staining, abrasion, etc.Support: European laid paper mainly with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including wreath with vase [?] (see p.8, etc.), crown and grapes (see p.35), and "FIN DE P CARTELIER A PERU ... 1743 [?]" ; another type with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of grapes (raisin) with cartouche and crown above (see p.132, 134, 135, 137, etc.) ; beige in color, thin and transluscent though quite sturdy, well-burnished to glossy.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by gold rule-border, elsewhere surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; elegant 'Syrian' or Turkish hand ; mainly seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs on most ascender letters (including free-standing alif), slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes (or conjoined dots) rather than distinct dots, etc.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 6 V(60), IV+1 (69) ; almost exclusively quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts).Colophon: "Authorial," triangular, reads "قال مؤلفه عبد الله تعالى الفقير الى عفوه ومغفرته محمد بن الطيب بن محمد الفاسي ثم المدني كان الله له وجعله ممن لولائه اهله وافق الفراغ منه ضحوة الاثنين التاسع من صفر الخير عام اثنين وخمسين ومائة والف بمنزلي بالمدينة المنورة تحت المنارة السليمانية من المسجد النبوي الشريف صلى الله وسلم على مشرفه وعلى اله وصحبه انتهى بحمد الله ..."Explicit: "فمن زحزح عن النار وادخل الجنة فقد فاز بالنصير وجاء الفتح"Incipit: "يا من احزابه لم تزل مؤيدة على الاعداء منصورة ... وبعد فقد سألني بعض نجباء الاصحاب المولعين بقرأة الاحزاب ان اقيد على حزب الامام الكبير العارف بالله تعالى محيي الدين ابي زكريا يحيى ابن شرف النووي ... ما يكون لحفاظه كالشرح لالفاظه ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.5).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Elegant copy of a commentary by Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī (d.1756) on the Ḥizb (liturgy, prayers) of Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyá ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 1277), followed by a condensed version of the Ḥizb (p.142).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.Relatively clean copy with only a few marginal corrections ; possible former inventory mark with excerpt on 'title page' (p.5)

AL-RAŠĪD IBN AL-ṬAYYIB ABŪ AL-ḪAYR. Kitāb tiryāq al-ʿuqūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl, intitulé également : Kitāb ka?f al-asrār al-ḫafiyya min al-asbāb al-masīḥiyya.

Ka?f al-asrārMaʿālīm fī uṣūl al-dīn (al-)Tiryāq al-ʿuqūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūlNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Copie exécutée par Ġaṭṭās Abū Laṭīf al-Samānūdī et achevée au mois de Raǧab I de l'année foncière (ḫarāǧiyya) 1035 (f. 101 v). Introduction (1 v-2) ; 1re section (2-63 v) ; 2e section (63 v-89) ; conclusion (89 v-99). Note transcrite d'après le manuscrit copié, contenant six citations pour prouver que les peuples des sept climats adoraient sept planètes. Contenu identique à celui du Ms. Arabe 179.Une notice de J. Ascari. Acheté en Orient par de Maillet. — Marque de possession de Yūsuf ibn ʿAṭiyya connu sous le nom de Quzmān (f. 101 v) et mention du décès de son père en 1078 de l'Hégire [1667 J.-C.] (f. 1)

Recueil.

Maʿālīm fī uṣūl al-dīn (al-)Contient : AL-RAŠĪD IBN AL-ṬAYYIB ABŪ AL-ḪAYR. Kitāb tiryāq al-ʿuqūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl ; MACAIRE D'ALEXANDRIE. Vie de saint Macaire le Grand ; La Sagesse de Sybille ; Fragment anonyme de médecine, intitulé : Manāfiʿ nuqilat min kutub al-ḥukamāʾ al-aṭibbāʾNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Copie anonyme, achevée à Ḥoms au mois de Ayyār 1764 d'Alexandre (f. 170).Une notice anonyme et une de J. Ascari (1736)

Recueil.

Contient : ʿABD ALLĀH IBN AL-ṬAYYIB ABŪ AL-FARAǦ. Commentaire sur les psaumes ; SIMʿĀN IBN KALĪL IBN MAQĀRA. Introduction aux psaumes ; Sentences attribuées à saint Grégoire de Nazianze ; Psaumes (y compris le psaume apocryphe CLI), pour le rite copte ; CantiquesNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution.Copie anonyme et non datée.Une notice de Renaudot, complétée par J. Ascari. Provient de la Bibliothèque Gaulmin

Sharḥ Qaṣīdat al-Ḥarīrī, [1271, i.e. 1854].

Fine copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s (d.516/1122) didactic urjūzah on grammar, Mulḥat al-iʻrāb, accompanied by commentary.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 947Origin: As appears in colophon on p.122, copied by Aḥmad ibn al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib with transcription completed 19 Ṣafar 1271 [ca. 11 November 1854].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 96Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "قصيدة الحريري ملحة الاعراب" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and staining.Support: European laid paper of several types (all extremely well-burnished) ; opening type with 8-9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of scrollwork / arms consisting of two-headed eagle with crown above, star and trefoil at center, and "G. C. C." below (see p.2, 10, 12, etc.), dark cream to beige in color, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "GIOR MAGNANI" under scrollwork / arms with bird above tower (see p.22, 24, 30, 32, etc. and compare Heawood 3748 and Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.88), medium cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark of "G M" under scrollwork (see p.50, etc.), dark cream to beige in color, well-burnished to glossy ; some staining, creases and tears.Decoration: Keywords and headings rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas in red.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; clear, compact Turkish hand in a medium to bold line ; characteristically serifless with marked inclination to the right, mainly closed counters, some elongation of horizontal strokes, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ often unpointed.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), VI (62), i ; exclusively quinions with final senion ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals under letter kāf in upper margin of recto of opening leaf of each quire ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت الملحة وشرحها نهار الجمعة المبارك لتسعة عشر يوما مضين من صفر سنة الف ومائتين واحدى وسبعين على يد الفقير الى الله سبحانه احمد بن الشيخ محمد الطيب غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجمعين امين م"Explicit: "ثم الصلاة بعد حمد الصمد على النبي المصطفى محمد واله وصحبه الاخيار على روام الليل والنهار واله الأئمة الاخيار القانتين في الدجا الابرار"Incipit: "قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... ابو محمد القاسم بن علي الحريري ... اقول من بعد افتتاح القول بحمد ذي الطول شديد الحول ... الحد ما يمنع الشيء المحدود من الخروج عما حد به ويمنع غيره من الدخول فيه ومنه اشتقاق حدود الدار والحد في اللغة هو المنع ومنه سمي البواب حدادا لانه يمنعه الطارق من الدخول ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' / opening leaf (p.1).Ms. codex.Heawood, Edward. Watermarks mainly of the 17th and 18th centuries. Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae, vol. I Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1950.Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011):Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of al-Ḥarīrī’s (d.516/1122) didactic urjūzah on grammar, Mulḥat al-iʻrāb, accompanied by commentary.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory numbers, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No.7776" ; UM Library inscription on p.5 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; glosses and marginal corrections (often with signes de renvoi and marked marked "صح" )

Recueil

Contient : ʿUBAYDA IBN MUḤAMMAD AL-ṢAĠĪR IBN ANBŪĞA ; AḤMAD IBN IBRĀHĪM B ʿABD AL-RAḤMĀN AL-ʿALAWĪ ; Commentaire ; ʿUMAR ĞELIYĀ ; Nuzhat al-mutaʾammil wa-muršid al-mutaʾahhil ĞALĀL AL-DĪN AL-SUYŪṬĪ ; ABŪ ʾL-ṬAYYIB AḤMAD IBN AL-ḤUSAYN AL-MUTANABBĪ ; Notes, textes courts, extraits (prose et poésie)Numérisation effectuée à partir d'un document de substitution

Dīwān shiʻr Abī al-Ṭayyib, [1016, i.e. 1608].

Fine copy of the renowned dīwān and glosses, closing with a discussion of the source material for the recension contained in the model from which this manuscript was transcribed.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 246Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.210b (p.420), copied by Sulaymān ibn Yūnus ibn Khaṭṭāb ibn Shaḥḥādhah [?] ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥurayz al-Satafī [?] al-Mālikī. Transcription finished "wa-kāna al-farāgh min istinsākh hādhā al-dīwān..." 14 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1016 [ca. 31 March 1608].Accompanying materials: a. between pp. 322-23 folded slip with numerals, etc. -- b. between pp.404-405 slip in laid paper with verses copied in ruqʻah.Binding: Pasteboards covered in deep brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves as well as interior of envelope flap in shell marbled paper (pink, brown and white) ; interior of fore edge flap in same brown leather ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped central piece and decorative border (formed from two repeating vegetal pattern stamps and interlocking architectural pattern stamp) along with pendants and corner pieces (formed from a repeated scrolling floral pattern stamp) ; envelope flap bears complementary design formed from same stamps ; sewn in cream thread, four stations ; worked chevron endbands in cream and blue ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, fading, some pest damage, loss to endbands, and spine slant (cocked) ; housed in box for protection.Support: non-European laid paper ; laid lines oriented horizontally or vertically (some variation from quire to quire) spaced roughly 7-9 laid lines per cm. (also varying) with some sagging or curving ; chain lines very feint and indistinct but occasionally visible - may be grouped ; quite firm, somewhat crisp, and of medium translucency ; well burnished ; only a few inclusions and undissolved fibers visible ; flyleaves in European laid paper, laid lines vertical spaced roughly 11 laid lines per cm. ; chain lines horizontal spaced 30 mm. apart ; large shield/scrollwork (six pointed star within) watermark partially visible in back flyleaf.Decoration: Illuminated titlepiece on fol.1a (p.1) consisting of upper and lower rectangular panels with central roundel (shamsah) ; upper panel bears title in gold thuluth ; shamsah bears author's name,etc. in blue and gold, highly ligatured tawqi verging on thuluth ; lower panel continues blessings upon the author in gold thuluth ; outlined by vegetal accents in blue ; framed in pink band with blue crosses and a series of gold bands outlined with black fillets ; superbly executed illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) on fol.1b (p.2) consisting of rectangular panel surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) surmounted by vertical stalks (tigh) in blue and gold ; rectangular panel contains stylized cartouche in gold carrying title "ديوان شعر ابي الطيب" in white, surrounded by floral vegetal decoration in gold, orange-red, white, light blue, etc. on a field of lapis lazuli flanked by semi-circular pieces in light-blue and gold ; semi-circular piece carries floral vegetal design in gold, orange-red, pink, white, etc. on fields of lapis lazuli and gold ; bordered in a well with blue crosses on a pink band ; between the two pieces a rectangular band floral vegetal decoration in gold, blue, orange-red, and white on a field of black ; written area and margin (including decoratively arranged lines) framed in a series of gold bands flanked by black fillets ; incipit and facing page various floral designs in orange-red, blue, white, green, and gold ; partially chrysographed with section (divisions by letter) headings in gold ; text of titlepiece in gold and blue ; text rubricated with verse headings, numerals corresponding to glosses, etc. in red.Script: Naskh ; large, clear hand of Persianate character (Iraqi ?) ; mainly sans serif but with occasional right-sloping head serif on free-standing alif, lām of definite article, etc. and left-sloping head serif on joined alif, etc. (irregular), kāf mashqūqah preferred, but mabsūṭah also appears, slight effect of inclination to the left, elongation of horizontal strokes, some sweeping descenders, quite rounded and curvilinear, pointing in distinct dots, point of final / free-standing nūn set down in bowl ; fully vocalized ; glosses of very similar character only thinner line and smaller size (likely supplied by same copyist).Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; single column, often divided to two to set off poetry, and fine ruled margin with lines arranged obliquely in decorative geometric patterns (triangles, zig-zag, etc.) ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, V-1(9), 19 V(199), VI(211), ii ; chiefly quinions ; final leaf left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular then rectangular, reads: "وكان الفراغ من استنساخ هذا الديوان المبارك رابع عشر شهر ذي القعدة من شهور سنة ستة عشر والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلات والسلام تم وعلى يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى سليمان بن المرحوم يونس بن خطاب بن شحاذة بن محمد بن حذير الستفي المالكي غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه واخوانه ولمن طالع فيه ودعا لم [كذا] بالمغفرة ولكل المسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلم"Explicit: "ومثلك يؤتى من بلاد بعيدة ليضحك ربات الحداد البواكيا. وقال ايضا يمدح سيف الدولة ... وكانه جيش ابن حرب رعته حتى كانك يا علي علي. تم شعر ابي الطيب برياذاته والحمد لله كما هو اهله. يقول كاتب اصله المنقول منه هذه النسخة نقلت هذا الديوان من نسختين ..."Incipit: "قافية الهمزة قال ابو الطيب احمد بن الحسين المتنبى رحمه الله ومولده بالكوفة في كندة سنة ثلث وثلثماية يمدح سيف الدولة وكان امره باجازة ابيات على هذا الوزن وهذا الروي شعر عذل العواذل حول قلبي التائه وهوى الاحبة منه في سودائه ..."Title from titlepiece on fol.1b (p.2).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the renowned dīwān and glosses, closing with a discussion of the source material for the recension contained in the model from which this manuscript was transcribed.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Possible former inventory marks include inscription in pencil, on front flyleaf "466 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and on fol.1a "31" ; glosses, decoratively arranged in margin throughout ; a few notabilia ; on fol.208a-210b (p.415-420) a discussion, transcribed by the present copyist as it appears in the model from which he was working, addresses the manuscript copies from which that recension of the Dīwān had been taken