The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The present work is a supergloss on the gloss (ḥāshiyah) by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816 AH / 1413 CE) on the Lawāmiʿ al-asrār by Qutb al-Dīn al-Taḥtānī al-Rāzī (d. 766 AH / 1364 CE), being in turn a commentary on a book of logic entitled Maṭāliʿ al-anwār by Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Urmawī (d. 682 AH / 1283 CE). Written for the library of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, it was completed in Bursa in 918 AH / 1512 CE, the year of that ruler's accession to the throne. The text, which opens with an illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b), is written in naskh script mostly in black ink with certain words, such as qawluhu and aqūlu, in red. It is possible that the scribe is also the author of this work. The brown goatskin binding with central lobed oval and pendants with arabesque designs is contemporary with the manuscript.
Main text written in small naskh script mostly in black ink; certain words, such as qawluhu and aqūlu written in red or with extended horizontal strokes overlined in red; doxologicial formula (basmalah) inscribed in the headpiece on fol. 1b in white tawqī`script; part of the dedication on fol. 2a in gold riqāʿ script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
For the main text and various commentaries and glosses see Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1:614; S1: 848.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Būrsah (Bursa), Turkey
End of Shaʿbān 918 AH / 1512 CE
book
Original Binding
Brown goatskin (with flap); central lobed oval and pendants with arabesque designs on a gold ground and decorative frames; doublures of red leather with small central design and gold frame
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
[Ex libris] ʿIzzat [seal erased] (fol. 1a) (provenance)
[Ex libris] ʿAbd al-Qādir
[Ex libris] Bashīr Aghā Dār al-Saʿādah, dated 1158 AH / 1745 CE [plus his seal]
[Bequest entry ] On behalf of Bashīr Aghā, in the hand of Muḥammad Amīn, inspector of awqāf [with his seal and the shelfmark 419, as well as the bequest (waqf) seal of al-Ḥājj Bashīr Aghā Dār al-Saʿādah, dated 1130 AH / 1717 CE] (fol.1a); same seal also present on fols. 2a, 35a, 52a, and 77b; shelf mark 419 also inscribed on the tail edge (provenance)
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Būrsah (Bursa), Turkey
End of Shaʿbān 918 AH / 1512 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic. The secondary language of this manuscript is Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928).
[Ex libris] ʿIzzat [seal erased] (fol. 1a) (provenance)
[Ex libris] ʿAbd al-Qādir
[Ex libris] Bashīr Aghā Dār al-Saʿādah, dated 1158 AH / 1745 CE [plus his seal]
[Bequest entry ] On behalf of Bashīr Aghā, in the hand of Muḥammad Amīn, inspector of awqāf [with his seal and the shelfmark 419, as well as the bequest (waqf) seal of al-Ḥājj Bashīr Aghā Dār al-Saʿādah, dated 1130 AH / 1717 CE] (fol.1a); same seal also present on fols. 2a, 35a, 52a, and 77b; shelf mark 419 also inscribed on the tail edge (provenance)
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
The present work is a supergloss on the gloss (ḥāshiyah) by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816 AH / 1413 CE) on the Lawāmiʿ al-asrār by Qutb al-Dīn al-Taḥtānī al-Rāzī (d. 766 AH / 1364 CE), being in turn a commentary on a book of logic entitled Maṭāliʿ al-anwār by Sirāj al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Urmawī (d. 682 AH / 1283 CE). Written for the library of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I, it was completed in Bursa in 918 AH / 1512 CE, the year of that ruler's accession to the throne. The text, which opens with an illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b), is written in naskh script mostly in black ink with certain words, such as qawluhu and aqūlu, in red. It is possible that the scribe is also the author of this work. The brown goatskin binding with central lobed oval and pendants with arabesque designs is contemporary with the manuscript.
Main text written in small naskh script mostly in black ink; certain words, such as qawluhu and aqūlu written in red or with extended horizontal strokes overlined in red; doxologicial formula (basmalah) inscribed in the headpiece on fol. 1b in white tawqī`script; part of the dedication on fol. 2a in gold riqāʿ script
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
For the main text and various commentaries and glosses see Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 1:614; S1: 848.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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