Sharḥ al-Shāfīyah, [1074, i.e. 1664].

Abstract

Commentary of Raḍī al-Dīn al-Astarābādhī (d. 686 or 8/1287 or 9) on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) celebrated manual of morphology, al-Shāfīyah.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1034Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.225b, copied by Ismāʻīl ibn Muḥammad Riḍā al-Fashkalī [al-Qashkalī ?]. Transcription ("katabahu...") begun first of Jumādá I 1073 [ca. 12 December 1662] and finished in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1074 [May-June 1664].Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 183 ; from spine label "۲۸[?]".Binding: Thin pasteboards (very flexible) faced in red textured paper with purple paper over cloth on spine and and brown cloth at corners (half-bound); Type III binding (without flap); board linings in laid paper with single chain lines spaced roughly 26 mm. apart, laid lines spaced roughly 8 laid lines per cm.; what remains of spine label bears a portion of a former shelfmark; sewn in white thread, two stations, now also stab sewn; overall in somewhat poor condition with paper covering spine ripped and detaching, abrasion, staining, etc. ; remains whole and well-affixed to text block despite significant wear.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with laid lines running vertically, spaced roughly 9 laid lines per cm. ; some thin with many undissolved fibers, other heavy with many undissolved fibers; if chain lines are present they are very difficult to see clearly and measure.Decoration: Notabilia (side heads) rubricated ; overlining and occasional textual dividers in the form of discs and the numeral khamsah "۵" in red.Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; essentially serifless (though with occasional serif on lām of lām alif ligature), kāf mashqūqah preferred, tail of lām short and flattened, pointing (for two and three dots) in strokes rather than distinct dots, some sweeping descenders, gentle effect of inclination to the left ; marginalia in several hands, including some bearing the influence of nastaʻlīq / talik.Layout: Written in 25 lines per page; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 28 IV (224), I (226), i ; almost exclusively quaternions; a type of quire or section numbering appears on the verso of the first leaf of each quire beginning from the third but with "الثاني"; catchwords present; pagination in red pencil, very large Hindu-Arabic numerals, is completely unreliable and inaccurate - first mistakenly repeats ۱٢٩, then continues through ٢٢٢ off by one page, abruptly stops then resumes at what is actually p.234 (fol.117b) with "١٣۴" (i.e., off by one hundred pages) then immediately repeats "١٣٦" by mistake and then repeats "١٦۴" by mistake; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals continues through fol.180 only, but is fully accurate; pagination in pencil, Western numerals supplied during collation by cataloguer.Colophon: "Scribal," reads: "كتبه المذنب اسماعيل بن محمد رضا الفشكلي عفي عنهما ابتدء في غرة جمادى الاول سنة 1073 فرغ في ... شهر ذي القعدة سنة 1074 تم تم تم"Explicit: "وذلك لقولهم اليك وعليك واما حتى ... على الى والله تعالى اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب وصلى الله على محمد النبي الامي العربي واله الاطياب وسلم تسلميا"Incipit: "رب وفق لاكماله بحق محمد واله اما بعد حمد الله تعالى والصلوة على محمد وعترته المعصومين فقد عزمت على ان اشرح مقدمة ابن الحاجب في التصريف والخط وابسط الكلام في شرحها كما في اختها بعين [كذا, بدل بعض] البسط فان اكثر الشراح قد اقتصروا على شرح مقدمة الاعراب وهذا مع قرب التصريف من الاعراب في مساس الحاجة اليه ومع كونهما من جنس واحد بعيد من الصواب وعلى الله المعول في ان يوفقني لاتمامه بمنه وكرمه وبالتوسل بمن انا في مقدس حرمه عليه من الله ازكى السلام وعلى اولاده العز [أو الغر؟] الكرام قال المصنف تولى الله مكافاته..."Title from inscriptions on "added title page" and fol.1a.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Commentary of Raḍī al-Dīn al-Astarābādhī (d. 686 or 8/1287 or 9) on Ibn al-Ḥājib's (d. 646/1249) celebrated manual of morphology, al-Shāfīyah.Mode of access: Internet.Purchased in Egypt by Mr. Sulaiman;Several marks of ownership including: inscription accompanied by stamp of Rashīd ibn ʻAbbās Ibn al-Ṣaffār (رشيد بن عباس بن الصفار) seemingly dated 1258 [1842 or 3] on front flyleaf, inscription in name of copyist and oval seal impression on fol.1a and fol.225b, oval seal impression on fol.135a (p.269), and a few obliterated statements on fol.1a and fol.225b; numerous glosses and marginal corrections; an inscription on fol.1a inscription is likely a statement of collation, reads: "۲۲۴ ورق ..."; decorative talismanic square on front flyleaf recto ; talismanic inscription on recto of second front flyleaf (reminiscent of seal of Solomon / al-Ism al-Aʻẓam inscription, likely interesting form of الحوقلة) ; details of transcription (taken from colophon) repeated elsewhere (front and back flyleaves) by later owners