Wadh.Minasian 135 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Oriental Manuscripts Minasian Collection

Summary of Contents: This is a famous commentary on Alfīyah of Ibn Malik on Arabic syntax. Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ṭāʾī al-Jīlānī known as Ibn Mālik composed a work including 1,000 couplets called 'Arjūzah' on Arabic syntax. This 1000-couplet composition in syntax is known as Alfīyah of Ibn Mālik. Numerous commentaries and annotations have been written on this work, that are listed in Kashf al-Ẓunūn. This work has always been a textbook used in Iranian religious schools and published several times in Iran and outside Iran.

Language(s): Arabic

Arabic language--Syntax

Title: al-Bahjat al-Marz̤īyah fī sharḥ al-ʾAlfīyah

Title: البهجة المرضیة فی شرح الالفیه

Title: Sharḥ-i Suyūṭī

Title: شرح سیوطی

Author: Suyūṭī, 1445-1505‏ سیوطی، ۱۴۴۵-۱۵۰۵ Suyūṭī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr, 1445-1505 سیوطی، عبدالرحمن ابن ابی بکر، ۱۴۴۵-۱۵۰۵ Jalāl al-Dīn جلال‌الدین

Incipit: بسمله، احمدک اللهم علی نعمتک و آلائک و اصلی و اسلم علی محمد خاتم انبیائک… امّا بعد فهذا شرح لطیف مزجته بالفیه ابن مالک مهذب المقاصد واضح المسالک… لم یسبقه الیها غیره من الشروح و سمیته بالبهجه المرضیه فی شرح الالفیه…

Explicit: … عند صدور اولو الالباب و قال ابن عبّاس رضی الله عنه ما اوتی عالم علما الا و هو شاب فالحمدلله هدانا لهذا و ما کنا لنهتدی لو لا ان هدینا الله لقد جاءت رسل ربنا… و بارک علی محمد و آله و اصحابه و ازواجه و ذرّیاته کما بارکت علی ابراهیم و علی آل ابراهیم فی العالمین انک حمید مجید و اختم و لنا بخیر و اصلح لنا… و سایر المسلمین برحمتک یا ارحم الراحمین و یا اکرم الاکرمین.

Colophon: … سنه ۱۲۲۰.

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 117

Similar copies in other libraries:

NLI, 16/203, 15/175
SEP, 3/263

Similar manuscripts listed in other catalogues:

ARP, 134
DEN, 2/554

On the Web:

Digitized version of another copy of this work

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Western paper (watermark), natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular and thick), one size, glossy. ⟨Folios damaged by water and smeared by oil.⟩

Extent: 2+88 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 20 × 15 cm.

Dimensions (written): 13.5 × 8 cm.

Layout

19 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Graceful cursive Naskh, several hands, regular hand; annotated (Nastaʿalīq in Persian). Anonymous First and second folios are newly written.

Decoration

Rubricated titles; rubricated line above Alfīyah excerpts.

Additions: Prayers and study spells + prayer and worship principles on ff. 1a-2a. Ownership note eliminated. Oval stamp on f. 1a: اذا جاء نصرالله ۱۲۲۲ . Oval, illegible stamp on f. 88a.

Binding

Black leather, 16 × 21 cm, front + back cover, leather + pasteboard.

Condition

Back cover detached from the copy; head band and stitching in disarray.

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1220 AH; 1806 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated to The Ferdowsi Library by Dr Caro Minasian in 1972.

Record Sources

This record was created by Dr Mohammad Emami based on the information published in the Persian catalogue by Dr Ali Mir-Ansari (Catalogue of the Persian and Arabic Manuscripts in the Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection), Tehran: Miras-e Maktoob, 2016).

Availability

Entry to the Library is permitted upon presentation of a valid university ID card (for admissions procedures, please visit Wadham College Library, Persian Studies Section). Please Contact persian.library@wadham.ox.ac.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript.

Key to bibliographical abbreviations of alternative versions:

Libraries:

AQR: Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi; FAW: Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford (Minasian Collection); GIE: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Manuscripts; GIP: Great Islamic Encyclopedia Library, Photographed and Microfilmed Manuscripts; GUL: Library of Ayatollah Gulpayigani; MAJ: Library, Museum and Documentation Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly; MAL: Malek National Museum and Library; MNL: Mar'ashi Najafi Library; NLI: National Library of Iran; SEP: Sepahsalar (Shahid Motahari) Mosque and School of Tehran; TCL: Tabriz Central Public Library; UTL: Central Library of University of Tehran;

Catalogues:

ALZ: الذریعه; ARP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی عربی; COM: فهرست مشترک نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; DEN: فهرستواره دست‌نوشته‌های ایران (دنا); FAM: فهرست نسخه‌های خطی فارسی; FAP: فهرست کتاب‌های چاپی فارسی; FIH: فهرستواره کتاب‌های فارسی; KAS: کشف الظنون عن اسامی الکتب و الفنون; RAY: ریحانة الادب فی تراجمِ المعروفین بالکنیة او اللّقب; TAB: طبقات اعلام الشیعه.

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World