Summary:
Careful copy of the work on various Islamic sects by Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Ghazāli known as Niẓām-i Mudarris (fl. 14th cent. ?). Table of contents (فهرست) at opening (p.6)
Other Title(s):
Title from label on upper cover:رساله معرفت المذاهبTitle from inscription on front flyleaf (p.1) and blank opening leaf (p.3):رساله معرفت المذاهبTitle from inscription on back flyleaf (p.26):Risâla i maʻrifat ul mazâhib
Subject(s):
Islamic sects--Early works to 1800.
Sufism--Rituals--Early works to 1800.
Sufism--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Persian--Michigan--Ann Arbor.
1
Incipit:
"الحمد لله رب العالمين المحمود الطاهر المعبود ... بعد میگوید بنده ضعیف امیدوار پروردگار متعالی محمود طاهر غزالی بنظام مدرس مدرسه جلالی غفر الله له ... شناخته میشود معرفت المذاهب نام کردم ..."
Physical Details:
Collation:
i, V+1, i (11) ; catchwords present ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).
Script:
Nastaʻlīq ; quick hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with marked effect of tilt to the right, slight effect of words descending to baseline, elongation of horizontal strokes, freely ligatured, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots ; passages in Arabic (Qurʼānic excerpts, etc.) in a crude 'naskh'.
Decoration:
Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth mark over keywords) rubricated ; written area surrounded by double rule-border in red ; tables at close on pp.23-24.
Support:
European laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal), chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (vertical), and watermark of scrollwork with crown above and "G M" below as well as "AL MASSO" (see p.10, 14, 15, 19, etc.), thin and transluscent though sturdy, tinted blue.
Binding:
Boards covered in dark green cloth with brown leather over spine and board corners in brown cloth (half-binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in untinted laid paper ; sewn in heavy white thread, three stations ; overall in fair condition with abrasion, lifting and losses of spine leather, staining, etc.
Accompanying Materials:
a. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 9 Risāleh-i maʻrifat al-maẕāhib | A religious work (on the various sects etc.) by Maḥmūd Ṭāhir Ghazzālī. Undated" -- b. Recycled card with notes in pencil "Indian ms. & binding | blue paper is typical of Indian book production / per Emilie Savage-Smith" -- c. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Meredith-Owens notes" -- d. Slip with "n. f." [i.e. not found, likely in hand of E. Husselman] -- e. Slip with note "counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" -- f. Tipped in just inside upper cover, slip with verse from the Qurʼān (Sūrat al-Aḥzāb verse 72, 33:72) with English translation (that of George Sale) and citation "vid: Sales Koran Vol.2 ch: 33 p.285"
Ownership and History:
Inscription in black ink on back flyleaf (p.26) with title and author "Risâla i maʻrifat ul mazâhib von Maḥmûd Ṭāhir Ghazzâlî" ; description and possible former inventory marks on lower pastedown "Treatise on the Muhammadan sects" ; a few marginal glosses and corrections.
Contributor(s) / Included work(s):
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Posted by evyn on August 2, 2012
Tags: F. E. Nuttall Collection, Fully Catalogued, Persian MSS
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