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[DE-UBL] Vollers 41
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Sammlung Refaiya

Documents
Classmark
Vollers 41
Title
Author
Collection
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Catalogue
Vollers, p. 13

Content

Title

↳ in Ms.
f. 2a:
Fatḥ al-mutaʿāl fī ṣifāt al-mithāl wa-madḥ al-niʿāl al-mutasharrifah bi-khayr al-anām wa-mā yataʿallaqa bihi min al-kalām
ق 2أ:
فتح المتعال في صفات المثال ومدح النعال المتشرفة بخير الأنام وما يتعلق به من الكلام
↳ Established form
Fatḥ al-mutaʿāl fī ṣifāt al-mithāl wa-madḥ al-niʿāl
فتح المتعال في صفات المثال ومدح النعال
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Subject matter
biography
Region
Islamic world / MENA region
Content
Treatise on the Prophet Muḥammadʾs sandals dealing with the following aspects:
meaning of the term naʿl
the appearance of the Prophetʾs sandals
poetry praising the sandals
the various depictions of his sandals, their peculiarities and blessing powers

According to the colophon al-Maqqarī finished his work in Shawwāl 1030/August-September 1621 in Cairo. Numerous copies from his autograph spread to the Bilād al-Rūm and other countries. After the text has undergone many changes and additions, a revised version was composed in Medina in 1033/1623-1633. This new version served as model text for our MS.

ff. 115b-121a:
five praisings (taqrīẓ) on the author and his book
Completeness
complete
Language
Arabic
Script
Arabic
Author
↳ Name
Maqarrī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-
  • المقري، احمد بن محمد
↳ Data of life
* 1591 in Tlemcen
† 1632 in Kairo
Other copies of the works
Further copies
Berlin (Ahlwardt) no. 2595
Berlin Hs. or. 10653 (transcribed by the same scribe as in our MS on Tuesday, 8 Rajab 1068/11 April 1658)
Dublin, Chester Beatty (Arberry) no. 3113 (transcribed by the same scribe as in our MS on 6 Ramaḍān 1071/4 May 1661)
Cairo, Suppl. II/170
Leiden (Voorhoeve) 80
New Haven, Yale University (Nemoy) no. 1627
Translations
Urdu:
Faẓāʾil–i naʿlayn-i Ḥuẓūr. Tarjamah Muḥammad Khān Qādirī, Muḥammad ʿAbbās Riḍwī. Lahore 2002
Editions/Literature
Beirut 2006
Hyderabad 1334/1915-16

Description of the object

Record type
manuscript
Number of volumes
1
Binding
Reddish brown Oriental leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap; central ornmanet of the covers: mandorla with lobed perimeter, fleurons as pendants and an infill of floral scrolls and chi clouds, corners embellished with a flower stamp, frameborder of stamps in the shape of the letters; the envelope flap shows the same decoration as the covers; mandorla here without pendants; doublures of marbled paper

Writing material

↳ Material
paper
↳ Colour
yellowish-white
↳ Watermarks
crown with star and crescent above
countermarks: two letters with rod in single outline and trefoil above: -C, P-M, M-E, I-M or M-I, F-M
Number of folios
121
Dimensions
30.1 x 20.5 cm
Text area
21 x 12 cm
Number of lines
31
Catchwords
almost complete

Script

↳ Style
Arabic script → Naskh
↳ Ink
black
red
Illumination
text area double frame-ruled in red
Miniatures
ff. 37b, 39a, 40b, 41a, 99a:
depiction of the Prophetʾs sandals

History of the object

Date

↳ copy
f. 115a: Tuesday, 1 Ramaḍān 1033/17 Juny 1624 until Tuesday, 25 Ramaḍān 1033/11 July 1624
f. 115a: Shawwāl 1030/ August-September 1621
↳ autograph
f. 115a: Tuesday, 1 Ramaḍān 1033/17 Juny 1624 until Tuesday, 25 Ramaḍān 1033/11 July 1624
f. 115a: Shawwāl 1030/ August-September 1621

Place of MS

↳ autograph
f. 115a:
Cairo
Acquisition
1853; Damascus; none
Scribe
↳ other name form(s)
f. 115a: ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Azharī al-Miṣrī al-Ushmūnī
Link to manuscript notes

Access and usage

Collection
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Project
Sammlung Refaiya
Classmark
Vollers 41
↳ alternate
old classmark : D.C. 402
URN : urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-0004-7515
Editor
Wiesmueller, Liebrenz
status of edit
First input complete
Static URL
https://www.qalamos.net/receive/DE15Book_manuscript_00015474
MyCoRe ID
DE15Book_manuscript_00015474 (XML view)
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License
CC BY-NC 4.0
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