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Or 11591
- Record Id:
- 032-003947398
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003947398
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100123933668.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100185091869.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 11591
- Title:
- al-Ishārah ilá ‘ilm al-ʿibārah الإشارة إلى علم العبارة
Sālimī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad سالمي، محمد بن أحمد
- Scope & Content:
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A manual on dream interpretation in fifty sections (باب), by Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sālimī ibn ‘Umar al-Sālimī (أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد السالمي بن عمر السالمي, d. 1398). The copy was completed in the evening of 13 Muḥarram 855/14 February 1451 by the scribe ‘Īd ibn Muhannā’ ibn ‘Umar ibn Kuḥlī al-Shāfi'ī, from the province of Karak [modern-day Jordan] (عيد بن مهناء بن عمرو بن كحلي من معاملة الكرك المحروس الشافعي, see colophon, f. 126r, lines 4-8, transcribed below).
Al-Sālimī's text cites the lost Code of Dream Interpretation (دستور في التعبير), by Abū Isḥāq al-Kirmānī (أبو اسحاق الكرماني, fl 775-785), as mentioned in a note on f. 1r. The semi-legendary oneirocritic Ibn Sīrīn (ابن سيرين, died 728 or 729) is also cited.
Folios 1a-3 are replacements, while the main (angular and neat) scribal hand is replaced by another less accomplished hand on 15 folios (ff. 7-8; 10-13; 15-16; 18-19; 84-86 [gap in text on f. 86v]; and 95-96). A prayer written underneath the colophon, apparently in the main scribe's hand, invokes blessings upon the volume's two scribes (لمن كتباه), indicating that the 15 folios were part of the original copying of the volume (f. 126r, lines 13-15).
Begins (f. 1av, lines 2-6):
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى
آله وصحبه أجمعين قال الشيخ وهو محمد ابن السيرين
مما روينا عن خير الأنام صلى الله عليه وسلم
إنه قال الرؤيا على قسمين رؤيا رحمانية
ورؤيا شيطانية...
Ends (f. 125v, line 16-f. 126r, line 2):
ورؤيا
جاء رجل إلى ابن سيرين فقال رأيت في النوم كأني أنبشر عظام النبي صلى الله
عليه وسلم فقال أنت رجل تحيي سنته صلى الله عليه وسلم...
Colophon (f. 126r, lines 2-12):
تم كتاب...
الإشارة إلى علم العبارة على
على (!) يد العبد الفقير المتواضع لربه الكريم عيد بن مهناء بن عمرو بن
كحلي من معاملة الكرك المحروس الشافعي غفر الله له ولوالديه
ولمن نظر فيه ودعا له بالمغفرة ولمن علمه ولجميع المسلمين ووافق
الفراغ من نسخه نهار الإثنين عشية النهار يوم ثلاثة عشر خلت
من شهر المحرم الحرام أحد شهور سنة خمسة وخمسين وثمان مائة
أحسن الله عاقبتها بمنه وكرمه آمين آمين والحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى
الله على خير خلقه سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا إلى يوم الدين
يا خير مطلوب وأكرم طالبي والحمد لله
أغفر لقارئه نعم والكاتبي [!] والحمد لله
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Oriental Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003947398
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003947398
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. ii+126+iii
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100123933668.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1451
- End Date:
- 1451
- Date Range:
- 13 Muḥarram 855
- Calendar:
- Hijri-qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Material: A mixture of Eastern laid papers; f. 1 is a Western laid paper
Dimensions: 175 x 130mm leaf [90 x 150mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil; Eastern Arabic pagination in black ink at centre of every head margin
Ruling: Misṭarah; 16 lines per page; vertical spacing 11 lines per 10 cm
Script: Naskh; the main scribe is 'Īd ibn Muhannā' ibn 'Umar ibn Kuḥlī al-Shāfi'ī ( عيد بن مهناء بن عمرو بن كحلي الشافعي), see colophon, f. 126r, lines 4-5
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings
Decoration: None
Binding: Red buckram British Museum half binding stamped with crown on both covers
Condition: Smudges and waterstains throughout, especially to beginning and end of volume, many folios repaired with guards or mounts, large area of loss on f. 97
Marginalia: Very few
Seals: British Library stamps: ff. 1av and 126v
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from D. A. Sasson (Jerusalem), 13 June 1936
- Publications:
- Study:
- Fahd, Toufiq, La Divination Arabe (Leiden: Brill, 1966), pp. 345 (on no. 67, al-Kirmānī) and 352 (no. 103, on al-Sālimī)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)