Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 014/1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

55 fols

Folio measures

156x100 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Risālah fī al-tajwīd. Risāle fī l-tecvīd.

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1783

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

احمد لله على جتم التجريد تمت

Colophon position

Fol. 300r

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Dévényi, Kinga, Munif Abdul-Fattah, and Katalin Fiedler, eds. Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Islamic Manauscripts and Books 9. Leiden - Boston: Brill, 2016

Descriptive card

his epistle in Ottoman Turkish on the rules governing the recitation of the Koran is the final, fifth tract in a collected volume on various subjects. The first treatise is Jilāʾ al-qulūb (fols. 1v–62v) by Muḥammad ibn Pīr ʿAlī al-Birkawī (929–981/1523–1573). Fols. 276r–331v; 15 lines per page; page dimensions: 156×100 mm, text dimensions: 260×65 mm; marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish in black ink; full leather binding; with blind-tooled centerpiece; leather doublure; in good condition; conserved in 2010; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; flyleaves; below the tract (fol. 300r), a notice written by a different hand in Ottoman Turkish, announcing the birth of a boy called Sulaymān on 12 Muḥarram 1198 [7 December 1783]; similar notices on fols. 300v–301r, the last one is dated 19 Jumādā al-ākhira 1209 [11 January 1795]; on fol. 302r, a fatwa in connection with the recitation of the Koran in Ottoman Turkish by Mufti Ismāʿīl in the town of Maġnīsa (today’s Manisa in Turkey); fols. 302v–321r are blank; a prayer from the companion of the Prophet in Arabic on fols. 321v–322r (al-Aṣl al-thāmin ʿashar wa-l-miʾatāni fi Duʿāʾ Abī Dharr); fols. 276r and 322v–331r are blank; on fol. 331v there is a wise saying attributed to Luqmān in Arabic.

Entry author

Marina Santana