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Object numberMS 1497 [Handlist 80]
Creatoral-Khaṭṭāb (Author)
DescriptionThis manuscript contains three works, all copied in the same hand.
(1) fols 1b-26b
Risālat ghāyat al-laṭā’if wa’l-kathā’if
Here ascribed to al-Khaṭṭāb.
At the end of this copy, and, according to Poonawala (1977), of other copies as well, the text of the first poem in al-Khaṭṭāb’s dīwān is appended, introduced by the words li sayyidinā al-Khaṭṭāb a‘lā allāh qudsahu. The poem occupies fol. 21a-26b
Al-Majdū‘ (appendix) p. 280 mentions a work called Ghāyat al-kathā’if wa’l-laṭā’if without indicating its author.
REFERENCES: Ivanow (1933), no. 39 3 ('sometimes ascribed to Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir, or to Dhu’ayb’); Ivanow (1963), no. 376 (with the same information); Goriawala (1965), no. 80/i (no author mentioned); Poonawala
(1977), p. 136, no. 8; Gacek (1984), no. 24 (2 copies). Fols 27 and 28 are blank.
(2) fols 29a-70b
A fragment of a series of questions posed by al-Mufaḍḍal b. ‘Umar to the imam Abū ‘Abd Allāh Ja‘far al-Ṣādiq, with the Imam's answers. The work is stylised in such a way that al-Mufaḍḍal speaks in the first person singular.
The present copy is evidently incomplete, beginning abruptly with the words: thumma qāla al-Mufaḍḍal sa’altu bā (read: ’abā) ‘Abd allāh ...
Ivanow (1933), no. 11 mentions a work called al-Masā’il al-Mufaḍḍaliyya, implying that is listed by al-Majdū‘, but I have not found it in the published edition of the Fihrist.
REFERENCES: Poonawala (1977), p. 315, no. 4.
(3) fols 71a-75a
The last section of the manuscript begins mid-sentence, but there is a marginal note, evidently in the hand of the same scribe, stating that ‘perhaps (la‘alla) this is from the Risālat ṣawā‘iq al-irghām appended at the end of the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya’, and this is correct. The treatise in question is otherwise cited as Risālat īqā‘ ṣawā‘iq al-irghām and it was published by Fyzee together with the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya (see below, Ms. 1515/8). It is a refutation of a Nizārī response to the defence of the claims of the caliph al-Musta‘lī in the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya, this ostensibly the work of the caliph al-Āmir. The present fragment begins with the words found in Fyzee's edition, p. 36, line 4, and continues until the end of the treatise.
REFERENCES: al-Majdū‘ (appendix), p. 280; Ivanow (1933), no. 173; Ivanow (1963), no. 179; Goriawala (1965), nos 76/ii, 77/ii; Poonawala (1977), p. 131, no. 2; Daftary (2004), p. 110.
DESCRIPTION: red leather binding, tooled, with medallions; 75 folios; catchwords; 14 x 11 em (8 x 5.5 em); 10 lines; black ink with rubrics in red; neat naskh; very few marginal corrections; dated Rabī‘ II 1311(October/November 189 3 ); scribe not mentioned; the titles of the three works are indicated on fol. 1a; seals inscribed 1284.
(1) fols 1b-26b
Risālat ghāyat al-laṭā’if wa’l-kathā’if
Here ascribed to al-Khaṭṭāb.
At the end of this copy, and, according to Poonawala (1977), of other copies as well, the text of the first poem in al-Khaṭṭāb’s dīwān is appended, introduced by the words li sayyidinā al-Khaṭṭāb a‘lā allāh qudsahu. The poem occupies fol. 21a-26b
Al-Majdū‘ (appendix) p. 280 mentions a work called Ghāyat al-kathā’if wa’l-laṭā’if without indicating its author.
REFERENCES: Ivanow (1933), no. 39 3 ('sometimes ascribed to Muḥammad b. Ṭāhir, or to Dhu’ayb’); Ivanow (1963), no. 376 (with the same information); Goriawala (1965), no. 80/i (no author mentioned); Poonawala
(1977), p. 136, no. 8; Gacek (1984), no. 24 (2 copies). Fols 27 and 28 are blank.
(2) fols 29a-70b
A fragment of a series of questions posed by al-Mufaḍḍal b. ‘Umar to the imam Abū ‘Abd Allāh Ja‘far al-Ṣādiq, with the Imam's answers. The work is stylised in such a way that al-Mufaḍḍal speaks in the first person singular.
The present copy is evidently incomplete, beginning abruptly with the words: thumma qāla al-Mufaḍḍal sa’altu bā (read: ’abā) ‘Abd allāh ...
Ivanow (1933), no. 11 mentions a work called al-Masā’il al-Mufaḍḍaliyya, implying that is listed by al-Majdū‘, but I have not found it in the published edition of the Fihrist.
REFERENCES: Poonawala (1977), p. 315, no. 4.
(3) fols 71a-75a
The last section of the manuscript begins mid-sentence, but there is a marginal note, evidently in the hand of the same scribe, stating that ‘perhaps (la‘alla) this is from the Risālat ṣawā‘iq al-irghām appended at the end of the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya’, and this is correct. The treatise in question is otherwise cited as Risālat īqā‘ ṣawā‘iq al-irghām and it was published by Fyzee together with the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya (see below, Ms. 1515/8). It is a refutation of a Nizārī response to the defence of the claims of the caliph al-Musta‘lī in the Risālat al-hidāya al-āmiriyya, this ostensibly the work of the caliph al-Āmir. The present fragment begins with the words found in Fyzee's edition, p. 36, line 4, and continues until the end of the treatise.
REFERENCES: al-Majdū‘ (appendix), p. 280; Ivanow (1933), no. 173; Ivanow (1963), no. 179; Goriawala (1965), nos 76/ii, 77/ii; Poonawala (1977), p. 131, no. 2; Daftary (2004), p. 110.
DESCRIPTION: red leather binding, tooled, with medallions; 75 folios; catchwords; 14 x 11 em (8 x 5.5 em); 10 lines; black ink with rubrics in red; neat naskh; very few marginal corrections; dated Rabī‘ II 1311(October/November 189 3 ); scribe not mentioned; the titles of the three works are indicated on fol. 1a; seals inscribed 1284.
DocumentationBlois, François de. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011.
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