Arab O. 041 Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

DBId: 2008

Entry author: Marina Santana

Node type: Manuscript

Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 041

Former shelfmark

Total pages

70 fols

Folio measures

214x138 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Enʿām-i şerīf. [أنعام شریف]

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

1735

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

سوده الفقير السيد على بدر مادرين من تلالز السيد دوريش يوسف حامدا لله تعالى ومصايا على نبيه محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين سنه ١١٤٧ د٢

Colophon position

Fol. 64v

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

Another Anʿām-collection containing a specific selection from the Koran, dated 2 Ḏū l-ḥiǧǧa 1147 [25 April 1735] and copied by ʿAlī Badr Mādarīn, a disciple of al-Sayyid Darwīš Yūsuf. The manuscript includes the following sūras: 1 al-Fātiḥa, 6 al-Anʿām, 36 Yā-Sīn, 44 al-Duḫān, 48 al-Fatḥ, 50 Qāf, 53 al-Naǧm, 55 al-Raḥmān, 56 al-Wāqiʿa, 67 al-Mulk, 78 al-Nabaʾ, 112 al-Iḫlāṣ, 113 al-Falaq, and 114 al-Nās (fols. 1v–54r). It also contains instructions on prayer in Ottoman Turkish along with the text of prayers and tasbīḥ formulas in Arabic (fols. 54v–55r; 58r–61r), the 99 names (al-asmāʾ al-ḥusnā) of God in tabular form in gold ink (fols. 55v–57r), and the 99 names (al-asmāʾ al-šarīfa) of Prophet Muḥammad (fols. 57r–58r), as well as the physical description of Muḥammad and the first four caliphs (fols. 61v–64r). Fols. 65r–71r are blank. 70 folios; 9 lines per page; page dimensions: 214×138mm, text dimensions: 128×73mm; illuminated headpiece on fols. 1v–2r in gold, blue, red, and black ink; full leather binding; with gilded almond-shaped centerpiece (NSd) and corner pieces; with flap; paper doublure; in good condition; paper: laid paper with watermarks; script: nasḫī; fully vocalized; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; frames in gold ink; the verse boundaries in gold, red, and blue ink; flyleaves. This manuscript was in the ownership of Joseph Wenzel I (1696–1772), Prince of Liechtenstein, as evidenced by his coat of arms bearing his initials (I.W.F.Z.L., i.e., Ioseph Wenzel Fürst zu Liechtenstein) on the front and back covers. Later, it came into the possession of Adam František Kollár de Keresztény (1718–1783)—Imperial-Royal Court Councilor and Chief Imperial-Royal Librarian—as indicated by the volume's description in Latin on the first flyleaf and the Latin inscription on the last flyleaf. The latter was penned by Franciscus de Zierovsky of Sopron, the last recorded owner of the manuscript, on 1 January 1816.

Entry author

Marina Santana