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. 117/1

Former shelfmark

Total pages

28 fols

Folio measures

156x110 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Hāḏā kitāb Sirāǧ al-muṣallī

Title position

Attributed Title

Sirāj al-muṣallī wa-badr al-mubtadī wa-l-muntahī

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1796

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

سنه ١٢١٢ سنه ١٢١٢

Colophon position

Fol. 28r

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

A dated copy on the legal conditions of prayer, a widely-used Ḥanafī textbook whose authorship, however, has not yet been definitively established. It has been attributed to various individuals, including ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Simnānī (d. 493/1100; cf. GAL S I, 639), whose work is titled Sirāǧ al-musallī maʿa surūṭ al-ṣalāt. The present copy was transcribed by Molla Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī in 1211/1796. It is the first tract in a compiled volume on various subjects. Fols. 1r–28r; 11–15 lines per page; page dimensions: 156×110mm, text dimensions vary; marginal notes in Arabic in black ink; modern quarter leather binding with marbled paper covers; in good condition; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; ink: black; horizontal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; Oriental foliation; on fol. 1r owner’s note; on fol. 1v catch-title: Hāḏā kitāb Sirāǧ al-muṣallī; on fol. 5v short marginal notes in Ottoman Turkish mentioning the types of regulations in Islamic law found in the Koran. The manuscript was in the ownership of Ḫalīl ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd Allāh (an inscription dated 1213/1798 on fol. 1r), and was purchased by the Library from Rafael Danglmajer in 1950.

Entry author

Marina Santana