Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401006
Zulfikar A. Hirji
This article examines a little-known corpus of illuminated Qurʾān manuscripts that were produced between ca. 1750–ca. 1850 in the Swahili city-states of Pate, Siyu, and Faza on Pate Island in the Lamu archipelago (Kenya). Now dispersed in collections in Kenya, Tanzania, Oman, the UK, and the USA, the manuscripts have many distinctive features: decorative frontispieces, sūra titles, basmalas, and division and prostration markers; locally developed Arabic script styles; colophons containing names of copyists and completion dates; endowment dedications; northern Italian-made paper; and, blind-stamped, leather covers. The list of known manuscripts presented in the appendix is aimed at encouraging the identification, digitization, and study of other manuscripts in the corpus. The study of their content, materiality, and contexts of production can advance scholarship on the histories of Islamic manuscript production in coastal East Africa and provide comparative material for manuscript studies in other regions of Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401007
J. J. Witkam, Marijn van Putten
The present article focuses on additional texts or appendices by scribes to three Qurʾānic manuscripts of the Mamlūk era. These appendices were accidentally found in the collections of Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyyah in Cairo: in Maṣāḥif 81 dating from 734/1334; Maṣāḥif 94 from 830/1427; and Maṣāḥif 143 also from 879/1474–1475. The three manuscripts are one-volume luxury copies of the Qurʾān. The subjects of these scribal appendices are mostly matters of qirāʾāt, taǧwīd, and waqf. They make explicit some of the rules that all scribes have internalized for themselves, as is often the case with crafts, but which are rarely recorded. Two of the three texts examined here are short, no more than one or two pages, but an exception to this is the longer text at the end of Maṣāḥif 81, the oldest example of the scribal additions that are presented herewith. The appendices are presented in chronological order. First, every manuscript is described generally, then each appendix is presented in transcription and annotated translation. At the end, a glossary of the technical terminology in use is added. All appendices are shown in facsimile.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01303008
Kinga Dévényi
Abstract This article provides a description of an Arabic manuscript found among the few manuscripts from the Mamluk period that are kept at the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. The manuscript contains a work on the arts of the lance by Ḥusām al-Dīn Lāǧīn al-Ṭarābulusī (d. 738/1338), one of the foremost experts in furūsiyya and, more particularly, on the topic of mayādīn . After giving information about the collection, including the other Mamluk manuscripts kept there, the article provides a detailed description of the work entitled Kitāb tuḥfat al-muǧāhidīn fī l-ʿamal bi-l-mayādīn .
本文描述了在布达佩斯匈牙利科学院图书馆东方馆藏的少数马穆鲁克时期手稿中发现的一份阿拉伯语手稿。手稿中包含了Ḥusām al- d n Lāǧīn al-Ṭarābulusī (d. 738/1338)关于长矛艺术的作品，他是furūsiyya领域最重要的专家之一，尤其是mayādīn领域的专家。在提供了关于收藏的信息，包括保存在那里的其他马穆鲁克手稿之后，文章提供了对该作品的详细描述，标题为Kitāb tuḥfat al-muǧāhidīn fir - taamal bi-l-mayādīn。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401011
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401009
Bruno De Nicola
Abstract This article focuses on MS Leiden Or. 95, which contains a version of the Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273), copied apparently in 1272 CE . This article explores the paratextual evidence present in the manuscript in order to reconstruct the history of the book and investigate aspects of cultural life in Mongol and post-Mongol Baghdad. It is an attempt, based on manuscript evidence, to contribute to the broader discussion on the impact that the Mongol invasions had on the cultural life of the Middle East in general and the city of Baghdad in particular. The analysis of the colophon, ownership marks, reading certificates, and annotations in this codex offer a particular case study of aspects of production, distribution, and consumption of knowledge in Ilkhanid Baghdad.
摘要:本文主要研究MS Leiden Or. 95，其中包含Naṣīr al- d đ n al-Ṭūsī (d. 672/1273)的Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt版本，显然是在公元1272年复制的。本文探讨了手稿中存在的文本证据，以重建这本书的历史，并调查蒙古和后蒙古巴格达文化生活的各个方面。这是一项基于手稿证据的尝试，旨在为更广泛的讨论蒙古入侵对中东文化生活的影响，特别是巴格达城的影响做出贡献。对colophon，所有权标记，阅读证书和注释的分析提供了伊尔汗尼巴格达知识生产，分配和消费方面的特定案例研究。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401002
Sébastien Garnier
Résumé La Bibliothèque Municipale de Dijon conserve un manuscrit ancien du Kitāb Tanbīh al-anām d’Ibn ʿAẓẓūm (m. 960/1553). Bréviaire apparenté à la littérature dévotionnelle et postérieur au parangon fondateur du genre, les Dalāʾil al-ḫayrāt ( scr . 857-862 ?/1453-1458 ?) d’al-Ǧazūlī (m. 869 ?/1465 ?), son étude offre un contrepoint ifrīqiyen nouveau. L’exemplaire que nous présentons comporte en outre des éléments absents des éditions courantes, en particulier une généalogie du projet auctoral qui assoit son ancrage tunisois.
摘要第戎市图书馆保留了古老的手稿Kitāb Tanb al-anīhām ibn al -ʿAẓẓ960/1553ūm (m)。祈祷文文献的生父dévotionnelle和后向创始人属的典范,Dalāʾal -他ḫayrāt (scr)。857-862 / 1453-1458 ?) (al - azūlīǦ869 / 1465 ? (m),她的研究提供了一个对比ifrīqiyen新。我们提供的副本还包含了当前版本中缺失的元素，特别是以突尼斯为基础的auctoral项目的系谱。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01401001
Adeline Laclau
This article focuses on the seven monumental Qur’āns made during the reign of Sultan al-Ashraf Shaʿbān II (r. 1363–1378), considered to be the masterpieces of the Mamluk arts of the book. These are MSS Cairo, Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya Raṣīd 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 54. The aim of this study is to deepen our knowledge of the manufacturing system and the context of production of these manuscripts through the examination of paper formats, writing, and illuminations. This analysis allows us to locate these Qur’āns in the overall context of fourteenth-century manuscripts production, but also to reconsider the place of the two illumination workshops involved in their ornamentation, as well as their relationship with Sultan Shaʿbān and his entourage.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-26DOI: 10.1163/1878464x-01303009
Garrett Davidson
Princeton University’s collection of Islamic manuscripts is by far the largest collection of its kind in the Western hemisphere and one of the most valuable collections in the world. It consists of some 13,500 manuscripts with diverse origins in public and private libraries from the Western to the Eastern Islamic lands. The collection is not only notable for its size and diversity, but also its quality, containing a large number of autograph and otherwise unique manuscripts. Despite its importance, its histories and provenances have not been the subject of an in-depth study. This paper begins to fill this lacuna. Drawing on a number of previously unstudied archival and documentary sources, including personal correspondence and paratextual manuscript notes, the article traces the development of the sub-collections, studies the collectors who built them, their methods and sources, and tells the stories of their collections’ journeys to Princeton.
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