Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan
المشاركة في الفهرسة: المخطوطات الاسلامية في جامعة ميشيغان

Ḥayrat al-fuqahā khajlat al-fuḍalā,[880, i.e. 1475].حيرة الفقها خجلة الفضلا,[880ه, 1475م].

Shelfmark:

Isl. Ms. 264

Title:

Ḥayrat al-fuqahā khajlat al-fuḍalā,[880, i.e. 1475].حيرة الفقها خجلة الفضلا,[880ه, 1475م].

Author:

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Place/Date of Production:

[1475].

Size:

153 leaves :paper ;240 x 165 (177 x 109) mm.

Summary:

Elegant copy of a collection of legal decisions ; further details on the composition, works consulted, etc. appear on pp.8-10.

Other Title(s):

حیرة الفقها خجله الفضلاحيرة الفقها خجلت الفضلاحيرة الفقها خجله الفصلا [sic]حیرةالفقها و خجالت الفضلا

Subject(s):

Islamic law--Interpretation and construction--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor.

Genre:

Headpieces (layout features)15th century.

Language:

Persian.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from opening matter on (p.7).

Incipit:

"الحمد لله رب العالمين و الصلوة على رسوله آدم ومحمد وما بينهما من الانبياء والمرسلين وعلى آله البرره الطيبين وصحبه السفره الطاهرين وعلى محبهم ومحب محبيهم الى يوم الدين چون ايزد سبحانه و تعالى بعد از تاريخ هجرت مصطفى صلى الله عليه و سلم بششصد و نود و بنج سال خواست كه دين محمدى را كه هجرتين اديا نست ... و اين كتاب را حيرة الفقها خجله الفصلا [خجلة الفضلاء ؟] نام نها دم انشا الله العزيز ...."

Explicit:

"اين عاريت است والله اعلم بالصواب"

Colophon:

"Scribal," triangular, reads "تم الكتاب بعون الملك الوهاب فى غره جمادى الثانى سنه ۸۸۰ تم لفقير الحقير پر جليل برده ليق"

Dedication:

Apparently compiled for amīr Nawrūz Beg (d.1297) [?], see dedication on p.3 "از لطايف صنع و آثار فضل خود خداوند و مخدوم جهانان امير بزرگ عالم عادل خسرو افاق لشكركس و سپهدار خراسان و عراق نوشيروان عهد صاحب السيف و القلم مدبر امور العالم ناصر عباد الله حافظ بلاد الله المنظور من السماء المظفر على الاعداء المخصوص بعنايت رب العالمين خسرو زمين و زمان صاحب قرآن امير المؤمنين برهان رسول رب العالمين غياث الاسلام و المسلمين نوروز بيگ خلد الله ملكه ..."

Contents:

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Physical Details:

Collation:

i, IV-1 (7), IV (15), IV+1 (24), 5 IV(64), IV+3 (75), 4 IV(107), IV+1 (116), IV (124), 2 III (136), IV (144), IV+1 (153), i ; quaternions (many anomalous) and two ternions ; catchwords present (occasionally cut off) ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.

Layout:

Written in 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.

Script:

Nastaʻlīq ; elegant hand ; serifless, with slight effect of words descending to baseline, closed counters, and elongated horizontal strokes, pointing somewhat inconsistent and occasionally unclear ; partially vocalized.

Decoration:

Exquisite illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ ) at opening on p.2 consisting of rectangular piece with cartouche ending in scalloped domes carrying inscription (" الله ولا سواك [?]" ) in foliated Kufic surrounded by swirling arabesque (all in gold) and accented by red and blue dots flanked by delicated floral vegetal composition on lapis lazuli and bordered in gold, white and turquoise bands, surmounted by a row of elegant arabesque in white, gold, red, turquoise, etc. on a lapis lazuli ground, itself surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area throughout surrounded by narrow gold frame defined by black fillets and outermost blue rule ; some keywords chrysographed, others rubricated or in blue ink ; occasional textual dividers in the form of gold discs.

Support:

non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with 7 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and single chains irregularly visible (horizontal), sturdy and well-burnished ; many leaves now guarded ; flyleaves in European wove paper.

Binding:

Pasteboards covered in tan leather with dull red leather over spine and edges / turn-ins (possible repair / restoration treatment) ; Type III binding (without flap) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in green wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry central scalloped mandorla with traces of filigreé (now lost) on recessed paper onlays ; sewn in light blue thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in light blue and golden yellow, good condition ; overall in somewhat poor condition with losses of onlays, some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather, etc.

Former Shelfmarks:

"129 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on upper pastedown.

Origin:

As appears in colophon on p.306, copied by Pīr Jalīl Burdahʻlīq with transcription completed 1 Jumādá II 880 [October 1475].

Ownership and History:

Inscription in pencil on upper pastedown "129 T. D. M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" ; assorted notes and excerpts on 'title page' (p.1) including possible ownership statement ; occasional marginal corrections, glosses and notabilia (side-heads).

Contributor(s) / Included work(s):

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Scribe(s):

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Former Owner(s):

Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, 1842-1918, former owner.

In Collection:

Abdul Hamid Collection.