حدايق احداق الازهار ومصابيح انوار الانوار

Ḥadāʼiq aḥdāq al-azhār wa-maṣābīḥ anwār al-anwār.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Istanbul, [1539]
Description
v, 84, ii leaves: paper, ill. ; 210 x 152 (135 x 100) mm. bound to 214 x 155 mm.

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    Summary note
    Anthology on the number 10, comprising an introduction, ten chapters (bāb) and a khātimah (see description of contents in preamble, fol. 2b-3b). This copy lacks the beginning of the text. According to a note on fol. 84b, it was collated by the author's father.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from preamble of text (fol. 3b, l. 10).
    • Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with use of red? (fading to dark grey). The text is partially vocalized; final yāʼ dotted. Contains a chart with direction of the qiblah for al-Shām (fol. 75b, in black ink). European paper with watermark; glossy. Quinions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. According to catchword, quire structure, and the foliation in Arabic numerals, lacuna after fol. 28 and after fol. 66. Stained with water.
    • Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 11 al-Mawṣil".
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied in Istanbul, 19 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 946 [Aug. 4, 1539] (fol. 84b). Collated by Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Tādhifī, the author's father (note on the right margin of the colophon).
    • Beginning as extant: في علوم عشرة وحياض جواهر مياهها منتثرة في رياض نضرة منطو على مسايل لغوية
    • Explicit: واشتمل عليها بهذا الترتيب اوايل كلمات ما نظمناه من البيتين السابق ذكرهما فى ديباجة هذا الكتاب واله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم بالصواب وهذه صورة الدايرة [diagram]
    Binding note
    Quarter bound in brown cloth and blue marbled paper.
    Provenance
    Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 4290
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 368 (2/4)
    Other format(s)
    Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
    OCLC
    228824121
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