Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

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Current_location

Institution

Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Collection

Oriental Collection

Present shelfmark

Arab O. 051

Former shelfmark

Total pages

169 fols

Folio measures

224x129 mm

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Ritual Textbook

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

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

An undated fragment from a ritual textbook for mystical purposes. It seems to have been used in the Mīrġanīya Ṣūfī order. The manuscript was badly damaged by moisture and what survives starts on p. 181 according to the Oriental pagination and continues until p. 518, pages 1–180 have become lost. The volume contains various, often anonymous texts predominantly in Arabic and at some places in Ottoman Turkish: Excerpts from ḥadīṯ and commentaries on the Koran, among them the Baḥr al-ʿulūm of Naṣr ibn Muḥammad Abū l-Layṯ al-Samarqandī (d. 373/983) (fols. 1r–22v). 169 fols.; 15 lines/page; p. d. 224×129mm, w. s. 149×74mm; at the start of the texts headpiece in red and black ink; sporadic marginal notes in Arabic in black and red ink; conserved in 2010 and rebound in modern quarter leather binding with marbled paper covers; in damaged but stabilized condition; paper: glazed without watermarks; script: nasḫī; ink: black; diagonal catchwords in black ink; headings in red ink; Oriental pagination. The manuscript was bought by the Library from a private person in 1969.

Entry author

Marina Santana