Wadh.Minasian 749 (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: ||… بالجمیل تعظیما له و اداء لبعض ما یحب له… الرحمه علی النبی و هو انسان اوحی الیه بشرع…

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: اختم لنا بالخیر… تمت الکتاب… فی یوم الجمعه فی شهر جمادی‌الثانی ۱۲۵۵… العبد العاص علی ابن مرحوم ابراهیم.

Colophon: قد فرغت من تسوید هذا الکتاب… فی سنه خمس و خمسون ماتان بعد الف… بید… علی ابن مرحوم ابراهیم سنه ۱۲۵۵.

References

Sequence Number in the Persian Catalogue:

FAW 119

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 (watermark) and Oriental paper, natural buff, varying thickness (thin, regular and thick), one size, glossy.

Extent: 184 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 21 × 13.5 cm.

Dimensions (written): 13.5 × 7.5 cm.

Layout

14 lines per page.

Hand(s)

Nastaʿalīq and cursive Naskh, several hands, fairly large hand. ʿAlī bin Ibrāhīm علی بن ابراهیم

Decoration

Rubricated titles; rubricated line above some expressions.

Additions: ‌Ownership note eliminated. Miscellaneous notes. Notes on ownership, ownership transfer, birth events, marriage events. Oval stamp: محمد علی غلامرضا .

Binding

Black leather, 14 × 22 cm, front + back cover, leather + pasteboard.

Condition

Damage to the spine and the facing of the cover.

History

Origin: Unknown place of origin; 1255 AH; 1840 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