Course of Islamic paleography by Jan Just Witkam

Course of Islamic paleography by Jan Just Witkam
Tasks for the student:
1. Read the bibliographical description of the manuscript.
2. Carefully compare the images of the manuscript with the proposed transliteration. Get accustomed
with peculiarities of this hand.
3. Transcribe in the same way a considerable portion of that part of the manuscript which has not been
transliterated. Start where the given transliteration ends. See how far you come.
4. Note remarkable or unusual ligatures and make a list of these.
5. Make an inventory of all signs and peculiarities which are different from modern practice.
W. 63
Arabic, Turkish paper with watermarks (crescent with face on shield = Abū Shubbāk; Arabic text as countermark:
+ 168 ‏,(بياض ابو شبّك اصطمبولى عال اصيلى 4 ff., 35 x 22.5 cm, vocalized naskh script, 19 lines to the page
(misṭara), black ink with rubrics, dated end Muḥarram 1337 (1917, colophon on f. 168a), full-leather Islamic
binding with flap, without ornamentation.
Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām (title on
f. 1a), a taṣliya-type prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī (d.
971/1563), GAL S II, 691.
On f. 1a (title-page) is also a waqf-note by Aḥmad Salaf b. Afrānī of Simnī pedigree, living in Abaghrār (?). The full
text of the note reads:
قلما علم احمد سلف بن افرانى بادر بوقف هذا الكتاب لجميع المسلمين وجعل النظر هو بنفسى ثم بوالديه ثم لاقاريبه الارب فالاقرب فمن بدله
بعدما سمعه فانما اثمه على الدين يبد لونه ان االله سميع عليم نسبه سمنى بلده اب رار عالان قل نطق المزالى
Added to the manuscript is one single leaf and one bifolium, both of the same paper, each with one page of text
in a smaller script but apparently not in the same hand. The bifolium has 40 lines of text and gives the
introductory part (but without the actual beginning with a basmala) of the Tanbīh al-Anām, in which is also
mentioned its alternative title Shifā al-Asqām wa-Maḥw al-Āthām fil-Ṣalāt ʿalā Khayr al-Anām. On the other side of
the folio is what seems the title-page, but the text is incomplete, as the upper part of the paper is torn off. The
bifolium consists of three blank pages, and the fourth page contains the beginning (with basmala) of what seems
to be the same text. Due to the
Provenance: 2008, Bale Mountains, South-East Ethiopia.
ff. 1b-2a:
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باب فى فضل الصلاة على النبي صلى االله عليه وسلم وشرف وآرم ومجد وعظم |
االله عظم قدر جاه محمد واناله فضلا عليه عظيما،|‏ فى محكم التنزيبل قال لخلقه ‏(عليه)‏ صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما،‏
محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد عدد معلوماتك واضعاف ذلك واضعاف
اضعاف ذلك وسلم تسليما آذلك،‏
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى
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ال سيدنا محمد الاية الكبرى،‏ |
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه واحدة صلى االله عليه عشرا،‏
صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى لا يدفع بالسيئة السيئة،‏
اللهم
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد
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الذى من صلى عليه عشرا صلى االله عليه مائة،‏ |
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الحبيب المصطفى،‏
على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه مائة صلى االله عليه الفا،‏
اللهم صلى وسلم
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا
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محمد المرسل بالشفقة والحنان،‏ |
جنة الرضوان،‏
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الفا زاحم و
آتفه آتفه على باب
| اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الف صلاة | على الكمال آان آمن استأنف
الاعمال،‏ |
وقصره،‏
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه فى يوم الف مرة لم يمت | حتى يرى مقامه فى الجنة
اللهم صلى وسلم على سيدنا ومولنا محمد وعلى ال سيدنا محمد الذى من صلى عليه الف مرة فى يوم
|| لم يمت حتى يبشر بالجنة فى اليقظة
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لا فى النوم،‏
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī.
Title-page with waqf-note (W. 63, f. 1a).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. Colophon (W. 63, f. 168a).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī.
Beginning (W. 63, f. 1b).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliyatype
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 2a).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliyatype
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 2b).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliyatype
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 3a).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 3b).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 4a).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 4b).
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Mukhtaṣar Tanbīh al-Anām fī ʿUlūw Maqām Sayyidinā wa-Nabiyyinā Muḥammad ʿalayhi Afḍal al-Ṣalāt wal-Salām, a taṣliya-type
prayer book by ʿAbd al-Ǧalīl b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAẓẓūm al-Murādī al-Qayrawānī. (W. 63, f. 5a).
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