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RSPA 112
- Record Id:
- 032-003475869
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003475869
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100097956322.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- RSPA 112
- Title:
- 1 copy of al-Kashkūl by al-ʿĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian - Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003475869", "parent" : "#", "text" : "RSPA 112: 1 copy of al-Kashkūl by al-ʿĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003475869
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003475869
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- ff iv+238+iv
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Arabic
Persian - Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1668
- End Date:
- 1668
- Date Range:
- 1668
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262
ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121250795,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/27052262 - Subjects:
- Arabic prose literature--1258-1800
- TEI:
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India Office Library
Jones Collection
Royal Society Arabic and Persian
RSPA 112
Contents
1 copy of al-Kashkūl by al-ʿĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn
Language(s): Arabic & Persian
ff. 1v-238vTitle: al-KashkūlTitle: الكشكولOn certain folios, there are large sections of space between the text, e.g. f.145r, or in one section around which the text is written, e.g. f.139r.
On f.1r, there is a golden circle inside which Jones has written "Caschūl: an Arabick Miscellany by Bahaʾu 'ddin al-ʿAamili"
On f.Iv, Jones has written "al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Kāmilah" (in Arabic script) and underneath written "An elegant moral work in Arabick". On f.IIv, he has noted that "The al-Khalāʾ, by the same author, [was] seen at Lucnow by Ahmed". It is unclear who Ahmed was, but presumably he was personally known to Jones.
In the colophon on f.238v, there is a section of text which has been effaced, which presumably included the copyist's name.
Explicit: يقولون لولا الهجر لم يطب الحب وان قلت ماذا قالت مجئته حياتك ذنب لايقاس به ذنب.Incipit: الحمد لله الواحد المعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله أجمعين.Colophon: تم المجلد الخامس من الكشكول بعون الله وحسن توفيقه في يوم الاربعاى تاريخ الاولى شهر جمادى الثاني سنة تسع وسبعون بعد الألف من الهجرة...من البلبات الوفوي.Physical Description
Form: codexMaterial: paperSupport: Strong, brown, woven paper.Extent: ff iv+238+ivDimensions (leaf): 330 × 200 mm.Dimensions (written): 250 × 130 mm.Foliation:European numerals in pencil. Perso-Arabic numerals in pen.
Condition
Very good condition.
Layout
Columns:1
Written lines: 27
Hand(s)
Very neat black naskh script with red rubrications.
Decoration
The initial page of each of the five volumes in this manuscript are extensively decorated. The paper is gilded with a floral design and the blue and gold headpieces show a series of concentric gold and blue boxes with three gold and blue cuppolas above.
Where the scribe adds an additional comment to the margin, it is written within a triangle that is bordered by the same gilded border as the main textbox.
Additions:Jones has occasionally highlighted sections (sometimes extensively, see ff.16-7) using curly brackets and underlining. Very occasionally he transliterates words (e.g. f.117v), notes the metre of a poem (e.g. f.122r) or notes the name of the poet (e.g. f.108r, on which he notes the poetry of Ibn al-Fāriḍ, or f.131r, on which he notes "Khansā, an Arabian poetess").
There is at least one other hand which writes very few marginal comments in Arabic that is not the hand of the scribe.
Catchwords are present on every folio.
Binding
Standard India Office half-leather (maroon/brown coloured) binding.
Accompanying Material
History
Origin: 1668-11-01 1_Jumādā 'l-Thānī_1079 AH; 1 November 1668 CE ; IndiaProvenance and Acquisition
RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones.
The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.
1876
India Office Library
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p. 73 no. CXIIAvailability
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