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Add MS 23492
- Record Id:
- 032-003471882
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003471882
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100092865894.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100113510990.0x000002
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- Add MS 23492
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Khazīndār, Al-Ḥājj Luṭf Allāh الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار
[Mukhtaṣar kashf al-ẓunūn مختصر كشف الظنون]
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A summary by al-Ḥajj Luṭf Allāh, known as al-Khazīndār (الحاج لطف الله الشهير بالخزيندار; see f. 2v, lines 5-6), based on the bibliographical encyclopaedia completed in about 1062/1652 by the Ottoman scholar Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAbd Allāh (مصطفى بن عبد الله, d.1067/1657), also known as Kâtip Çelebi (كاتب چلبي) and Ḥājjī Khalīfah (حجي خليفة).
The original work begins with an introductory section dealing with the classification of the sciences, followed by the main body of the encyclopaedia in which ca 14,500 books are listed alphabetically by title and given some commentary.
The present work is a summary of works on fiqh, grammar, tafsīr, history and other topics (وغيرها), beginning with a section on Ḥanafī jurisprudence in alphabetical order by title (ff. 3r-48v). The remainder of the summary follows no clear order.
Al-Khazīndār completed the work in 1244/1828-29, and the present copy was finished a year later, in 1245/1829-1830, by the scribe al-Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad Āghā ibn Muḥammad Āghā al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanafī (الحافظ أحمد آغا ابن محمد آغا البغدادي الحنفي, see f. 284v, lines 17-18, transcribed below).
Begins (f. 2v, lines 3-9):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على
سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه أجمعين وبعد
فيقول الفقير إلى رحمة ربه القدير الحاج لطف
الله الشهير بالخزيندار قد سألني بعض من لا يسعني
مخالفته ولا يمكنني مدافعته أن استخرج من كتاب
كشف الظنون في أسماء الكتب والفنون لكاتبي
چلبي الرومي الإسلامبولي نبذه يسيرة...
Ends (f. 284v, lines 9-16):
...وقد فرغت
من تسويد هذا الكتاب من المستطاب المستخرج من كتاب
كشف الظنون عن أسامي الكتب والفنون سنة
ألف ومائتين وأربع وأربعين من الهجرة النبوية
على مهاجرها أفضل الصلاة وأكمل التحية الحمد
لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنّا لنهتدي لولا أن هدانا
الله وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله
وصحبه أجمعين...
Colophon (f. 284v, lines 16-21):
...قد تم هذا الكتاب على يد
الفقير إلى الله الغني الحافظ أحمد آغا ابن
محمد آغا البغدادي الحنفي سنة
ألف ومائتين وخمسة
وأربعين غفر الله لهما
ولمؤلفه آمين
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- Oriental Manuscripts
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- 032-003471882
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
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Codex; ff. ii+284+iv
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100092865894.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1829
- End Date:
- 1830
- Date Range:
- 1245
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
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Material: Western laid paper; watermarks visible on some folios
Dimensions: 212 x 135 mm leaf [150 x 72 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 20 lines per page; vertical spacing 13 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the scribe is al-Ḥāfiẓ Aḥmad Āghā ibn Muḥammad Āghā al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanafī (الحافظ أحمد آغا ابن محمد آغا البغدادي الحنفي, see f. 284v, lines 17-18)
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red
Decoration: Unfinished illuminated heading on f. 2v in red, yellow and silver ink; the text area on each page is framed by two red lines and a blue frame near the page edges.
Binding: Plain red leather binding
Condition: In good condition; some ink smudges. A small piece of paper bearing notes is kept under the same shelfmark.
Marginalia: Very few, mainly in the scribal hand.
Seals: f. 2r; British Museum seal on ff. 27r, 115r, 154r, 189r, 234r, 262r and 284v
- Custodial History:
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- Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43);
- al-Sayyid Jirjīs (السيد جرجيس): his inscription (f. 2r);
- al-Sayyid Dāwud ibn Mullā Sulaymān (السيد داود بن ملا سليمان): his inscription and seal with legend 'Dāwud' (داود; f. 2r).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mrs Taylor, widow of Colonel Robert Taylor (1788-1852), Political Resident in Baghdad (1828-43), 14 April 1860
- Finding Aids:
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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 1469, p. 669.
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Editions of the text summarised:
- Kâtip Çelebi, Kashf al-ẓunūn ʻan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn: Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum a Mustafa ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi dicto et nomine Haji Khalfa celebrato compositum, 7 vols., edited by Gustav Flügel (Leipzig and London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1835-58)
- Kâtip Çelebi, Kashf al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī al-kutub wa-al-funūn, edited by Şerefettin Yaltkaya and Rifat Bilge Kilisli, 2 vols (Istanbul: Maarıf Matbaası, 1941-43)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)