Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīdat al-gharāʼib

Title:

Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīdat al-gharāʼib
خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب

Creator:

Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar
ابن الوردي, زين الدين عمر بن المظفر

Contributor:

Badahlī al-Shāfiʻī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim, scribe
Ibn al-Habbārīyah, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Dīrīnī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān
بدهلي الشافعي, احمد بن محمد بن عبد الدائم, ناسخ
ابن الهبارية, محمد بن محمد
ديريني, عبد العزيز
حراني, أحمد بن حمدان

Date:

1582].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 606Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.192b, copied in Badahl (Egypt) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Dāʼim ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Badahlī al-Shāfiʻī. Transcription completed ("kān al-farāgh min naskhih...") during Jumādá I 990 [May-June 1582].Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 108" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboard covered in paper printed with a red, black and white vegetal pattern; Type III binding (without flap); not original to codex; worn but intact.Support: non-European laid paper; at least three different papers are used; the paper of the 14th and 15th quires is notable for being quite thin; at least one of these papers can be described as 'Mamluk,' having 3 sets of 2 horizontal chain lines, with the chain lines roughly 12 mm. and groups roughly 40 mm. apart; roughly 7 laid lines per cm. (see fol. 37 where the paper's features are readily apparent).Decoration: On fol.3b, circular world map painted chiefly in blue and brown with a border of green lobes (representing the belt of mountains surrounding the Earth) and richly labeled with Mecca at the center, the Encircling Ocean, and other places, bodies of water, etc. marked in black and red ink; portions lost due to trimming; on fol.14a a framed chart with partial table of contents; on fol.51b a diagram in black and red ink for finding the direction of Makkah based on one's location with illustration of the Kaʻbah at the center; on fol.191a a table in black and red ink for use in calculating dominance using the numerical values of names; text rubricated with section headings, textual dividers, etc. in red.Script: Naskh; a small, clear hand with extremely vertical lāms and alifs, generally free of serifs, shaddah is generally marked; hamzah and waṣlah not marked; ihmāl signs often used over unpointed letters; a larger naskh is frequently used for section headings; thoroughly vocalized.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page; frame-ruled (using a misṭarah) though oddly at times, see fol. 151a where the writing does not extend to the end of the rulings.Collation: i, 1 (1), III (7), 18 V (187), III (193) ; chiefly quinions; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals is present for quires 13, 14, 17, 18, 19 in the top outer corner of the first folio of each quire; catchwords present; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (referenced in cataloguing).Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "وبتمامه تم الكتاب بحمد الله الكريم الوهاب كان الفراغ من نسخه قبل الظهر ببدهل في يوم الاثنين المبارك عشري شهر جمادى الاولى من شهور سنة تسعين وتسعماية على يد افقر عباد الله تعالى واحوجهم الى عفو ربه ومغفرته ورضوانه العبد الفقير احمد بن محمد بن عبد الدائم بن محمد بن سليمان البدهلي الشافعي"Explicit: "و هذه خاتمة الارجوزة وما حوت من حكم عزيزة"Incipit: "قل لا يعلم من في السماوات والأرض الغيب إلا الله الحمد لله غافر الذنب قابل التوب شديد العقاب عالم الغيب ... وبعد فان خالق الخلق والبدية ومن له الارادة و المشيئة قد ميز الملوك والرعاة عن من دونهم من الرعية"Title from inscription on front flyleaf.Ms. codex.4. fol. 191a-192b : Faṣl fī mawḍūʻ al-shaṭranj / Ibn al-Habbārīyah [?].3. fol.191a : Hādhā jadwal fīhi ḥisāb al-ghālib wa-al-maghlūb.2. fol.187b-191a : Qilādat al-durr al-manthūr fī dhikr al-baʻth wa-al-nushūr / ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Dīrīnī.1. fol.1a-187b : Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa farīdat al-gharāʼib / Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar Ibn al-Wardī [?].Cosmography, mainly plagiarized from the Jāmiʻ al-funūn wa-salwat al-maḥzūn of Najm al-Dīn al-Ḥarrānī (ca.732/1332). Authorship of the Kharīdah is disputed. It is often attributed to Abū Ḥafṣ Sirāj al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Wardī (d.861/1457) whose name al-Ziriklī gives as al-Wurūdī, though in this ms. it is ascribed to Zayn al-Dīn Ibn al-Wardī (d.749/1349). It has also been attributed to an ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī al-Subkī. (see EI2 "Ibn al- Wardī , Sirādj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar" and Sellheim, R. Materialen zur arabischen Literaturgeschichte, t. I, no. 49 for more on this matter of disputed authorship). The text concludes with excerpts from a poem on the resurrection, a table for numerological calculations of dominance using names, and verses on the game of chess. Description provided by Noah Gardiner.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Geography, Arab Early works to 1800.
Islamic cosmology Early works to 1800.
Islamic Empire Geography Early works to 1800.

Geographic region:

Asia
Africa
Spain
Islamic Empire

Extent:

193 leaves : paper ; 160 x 125 (125 x 85) mm. bound to 160 x 130 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

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