Walters Ms. W.585, Three hundred sixty Sufi questions

W.585

Three hundred sixty Sufi questions

Vernacular: خواتم الحكم وحل الرموز وكشف الكنوز

As-written name: ʿAlī Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Būsnawī

Supplied name: ʿAlī Dede al-Būsnawī (d. 1007 AH / 1598 CE)

Name, in vernacular: علي دده بن مصطفى علاء الدين البسنوي

Note: Author name supplied by cataloger

This work on Sufism in the form of questions entitled Khawātim al-ḥikam is by ʿAlī Dede al-Būsnawī (d. 1007 AH / 1598 CE). This particular Ottoman copy was written in nastaʿlīq script by Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad in 1081 AH / 1670 CE. The Arabic text begins with an illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b). The red leather binding with central lobed oval with arabesques on a gold ground is contemporary with the manuscript.

Mid Jumādá II 1081 AH / 1670 CE

Turkey

As-written name: Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad

Name, in vernacular: مصطفى بن الحاج محمد

Book

Theological

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

1. Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb al-mustaṭāb bi-ʿawn Allāh al-malik al-wahhāb /1/ ʿalá yad al-ʿabd al-mudhnib al-faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-muḥtāj ilá raḥmat rabbih al-qadīr /2/ Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad fī awāsiṭ Jumādá al-ākhirah /3/ li-sanat iḥdá wa-thamānīn wa-alf min hijrah man lahu al-ʿizz wa-al-sharaf /4/
2. Comment: Written obliquely on the right side of the frame, containing the name of the scribe and the date of copying

Paper

Cream-colored, watermarked laid European paper

Foliation: 210+v

Original foliation in red ink

Catchwords: On versos, written obliquely outside the frame

12.5 cm wide by 20.0 cm high

6.5 cm wide by 14.0 cm high

1. Columns: 1
2. Ruled lines: 21
3. Framing lines in gold, black, and red

1. Title: Khawātim al-ḥikam wa-ḥall al-rumūz wa-kashf al-kunūz
2. Author: ʿAlī Dadah ibn Muṣṭafá ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn al-Būsnawī
3. Scribe: Muṣṭafá ibn al-Ḥājj Muḥammad
4. Incipit: الحمد لله العلي الاعلم الفياض ...
5. Text note: Main text preceded by a detailed table of contents (fihrist) (fols. 1a-13a), enclosed in a gold frame; marginal corrections and glosses present, some attributable to the author (minhiyāt)
6. Hand note: Written in rubricated Turkish nastaʿlīq script
7. Decoration note: Illuminated headpiece (fol. 1b); framing lines in gold, black, and red

Upper board outside:

1. 
2. Title: Binding
3. Form: Binding
4. Label: This red leather binding has a central lobed oval with arabesques on a gold ground and gold frame.

fol. 1b:

1. 
2. Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpiece
3. Form: Incipit; headpiece
4. Label: This illuminated incipit page with polychrome floral design is inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah).

The binding is original.

Red leather (with flap); central lobed oval with arabesques on a gold ground; pastedowns of marbled paper

[Ex libris] Muḥammad ibn Zādah al-Ayyūbī, 1117 AH / 1705 CE (fol.1a)

Bequest (waqf) seal of the Vizier al-Shahīd ʿAlī Pāshā (fol. 1a [erased] and fol. 210b), dated 1130 AH / 1717 CE; former shelf mark 1173

[Ex libris] ʿAlī (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Brockelmann, Carl. Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (New York; Köln: E.J. Brill, 1996), 2:562.

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

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