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[DE-UBL] Vollers 659

Documents
Classmark
  • Vollers 659
Title
  • al-Taʿrīf bi-al-muṣṭalaḥ al-sharīf
Author
Collection
Catalogue
  • Vollers, pp. 207-208

Content

Title
↳ in Ms.
  • ff. 3a, 4b:
    al-Taʿrīf bi-al-muṣṭalaḥ al-sharīf
  • ق 3أ, 3ب:
    التعريف بالمصطلح الشريف
↳ Established form
  • al-Taʿrīf bi-al-muṣṭalaḥ al-sharīf
  • التعريف بالمصطلح الشريف
Subject matter
Region
Content
  • Handbook on the composition of documents for the chancellery. For this purpose, the text deals with chancellery rules, constitutional law, and the administration and transportation of the Mamluk Empire.
    ff. 162a-164a are written by another hand than the rest of the text
    f. 1a:
    a number of verses, among others composed by Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn Aḥmad al-Suhaylī al-Khaṯʿamī (d. 581/1185; GAL I/413 S I/733-734; Kaḥḥālah V/147; Ziriklī III/313) and Shihāb al-Dīn al-ʿAṭṭār.
    f. 1b:
    text on the plague of 749/1348-1349, taken from Nujūm al-zāhira fī mulūk Miṣr wa-al-Qāhira written by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf Ibn Taghrī-Birdī ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ẓāhirī al-Juwaynī (d. 874/1469; EI2 I/138; GAL II/41-42 S II/39-40; Kaḥḥālah XIII/282-283; Ziriklī VIII/222-223).
    f. 2a:
    Biography of Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, taken from Durar al-kāmina fī aʿyān al-mi'a al-thāmina written by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn [Muḥammad] Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī al-Miṣrī al-Kinānī al-Shāfiʿī (d. 852/1449; EI2 III/776-778; GAL I/359 II/67-70 S I/611 S II/72-76; Kaḥḥālah II/20-22; Ziriklī I/178-179)
    f. 2b:
    Biography of Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, taken from Nujūm al-zāhira written by Ibn Taghrī-Birdī
    f. 164b:
    Biography of Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Kūrānī al-ʿAjamī (d. 768/1366-1367; GAL II/205 S II/282; Kaḥḥālah XIII/313-314; Ziriklī VIII/240), taken from Nujūm al-zāhira written by  Ibn Taghrī-Birdī. The text has been copied by Muṣṭafā ibn Aḥmad ibn Manṣūr ibn Muḥibb al-Dīn, the owner of the manuscript.
    ff. 165a-167a:
    marthiyya on the arabised Berber dynasty of the Afṭasids, which ruled from 413/1022 – 487/1095 over the petty kingdom of Badajoz in al-Andalus ((EI2 I/242), written by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn ʿAbdallāh Ibn ʿAbdūn al-Yāburī al-Fihrī (d. 527/1133 or 529/1134; GAL I/271 S I/480; Kaḥḥālah VI/168-169; Ziriklī IV/149); Muṣṭafā ibn Muḥibb al-Dīn copied the elegy in Rajab 1021/August-September 1612.
    f. 167b:
    Biography of Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, takne from den Nujūm al-zāhira written by Ibn Taghrī-Birdī. The text has been copied by Muṣṭafā ibn Muḥibb al-Dīn in Rajab 1021/August-September 1612, too.
Completeness
Language
Script
  • Author
↳ Name
Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá
  • ابن فضل الله العمري، احمد بن يحيى
↳ Data of life
† 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 749/1 March 1349 in Damascus
↳ Person remark
  • ff. 3r, 3v
    شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد [بن يحيى] ابن فضل الله العمري [العدوي القرشي الكرماني الشافعي]
Further copies
  • Berlin (Ahlwardt) no. 8639
    Cairo (Fuʾād Sayyid) II/113-114, no. 1001
    Gotha (Pertsch I) no. 1657
    Leiden (Voorhoeve) 370
    Madrid, Escorial (Derenbourg) nos. 1639-1640
    Paris (Vajda) 674
    Princeton, Garrett Collection (Mach) no. 4367
Editions/Literature
  • Beirut 1408-1409/1988
    Cairo 1312/1894-1895
    Samir al-Droubi, A critical edition of and study on Ibn Fadl Allāh's Manual of secretaryship. Kerak 1992

Description of the object

Record type
Number of volumes
  • 1
Binding
  • Oriental half leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; front cover of dark brown leather with embossed décor, additionally pasted over with paper; central ornament of the front cover: circle with two fleurons as pendants and an infill of a six-pointed star, which consists of two interlaced triangles; corner-pieces and frame-border have a line pattern; back cover and envelope flap are covered with paper; doublures of the cover and the envelope flap are of paper, doublure of the fore-edge flap is of leather
Writing material
↳ Material
↳ Colour
Number of folios
  • 167
Dimensions
  • 18 x 13.1 cm
Text area
  • 15 x 10.2 cm
Number of lines
  • 17
Catchwords
Script
↳ Style
↳ Ink

History of the object

Acquisition
  • 1853
  • Damascus
  • Purchaser: Saxonian Government
  • Seller: ʿUmar Efendī al-Rifāʿī al-Ḥamawī
  • none
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Collection
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Classmark
  • Vollers 659
↳ alternate
  • old classmark : D.C. 213
  • URN : urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-0004-6360
Editor
  • Wiesmueller
status of edit
  • First input complete
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