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al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah : manuscript
Creator
مولانا بن محمد صالح.
Title
al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah : manuscript / Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ.
الشذور الذهبية والقطع الأحمدية في اللغة التركية : مخطوطة / ابن محمد صالح.
Production
Place not identified, 17th century.
Physical Description
1 volume (61 leaves) ; 19 cm
Language
Arabic; Turkish, Ottoman
Notes
Name of the author: "Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ" from folio 2b.
Title from incipit (folio 5a): "... wa-tarjamtuhā bi-al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah ..."
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī sharrafa al-insān wa-zayyanahu bi-al-nuṭq wa-al-lisān, wa-karramahu ʻalá sāʼir al-makhlūqāt, wa-faṣala [wa-faḍḍala] man shāʼa min ʻibādihi bi-al-faṣāḥah wa-al-ihtidāʼ ilá yumayyiz al-lifāq [tamyīz al-lughāt]. Wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka la-h, shahādatan tuḥaqqiqu li-qāʼilaihā al-tamassuk bi-al-awāmir, wa-al-ijtināb min al-muhayyabāt [al-manhīyāt]. Wa-ashhadu anna Sayyidanā Muḥammad al-mabʻūth ilá sāʼir al-umam, Sayyidī [Sayyid] al-ʻUrb wa-al-ʻAjam, afṣaḥ man naṭaqa bi-al-Ḍād ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي شرّف الإنسان وزينه بالنطق واللسان، وكرمه على سائر المخلوقات، وفصل [وفضل] من شاء من عباده بالفصاحة والاهتداء إلى يميز اللفاق [تمييز اللغات]. وأشهد أن لا إله إلّا الله وحده لا شريك له، شهادةً تحقق لقائلها التمسك بالأوامر، والاجتناب من المهيبات [المنهيات]. وأشهد أن سيدنا محمد المبعوث إلى سائر الأمم، سيدي [سيد] العرب والعجم، أفصح من نطق بالضاد ..."
Secundo folio: al-muḥkam. Iqraʼ wa-Rabbuka al-akram.
بداية الورقة الثانية: المحكم. اقرأ وربك الأكرم.
13 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 10 x 15 cm; 11 lines per page.
Binding: In brown leather; cover tooled with geometric design.
The translation of this work into modern Turkish "Eş-şüzûr-üz-zehebiyye vel-kıtaiʼl-Ahmediyye fil-lûgat-it-Türkiyye", was published in Istanbul, in 1949. See also Brockelmann (S II:632): "Maulānā b.M. Ṣāliḥ".
At the head of folio 1a: "al-Kitāb Tarjumān. Sanat 1088. Ṣāliḥ. Hādhā al-kitāb Tarjumān."
في رأس وجه الورقة 1: "الكتاب ترجمان. سنة 1088. صالح. هذا الكتاب ترجمان."
On folio 60b: An ownership statement, written within a decorative frame, in black, brown and green, with drawings of five musicians playing different instrument, only the first drawing (a female playing the tambourine is complete and colored): "Haydah al-kitāb al-Tarjmā [al-Tarjumān] ilá al-ʻabd al-faqīr Yūsuf ibn Ḥannā Tūmā al-Mārūnī."
على ظهر الورقة 60: مدونة تملك، مكتوبة داخل إطار مزين، بالأسود، والبني والأخضر، ورسومات لخمسة أشخاص يعزفون آلات مختلفة (صورة المرأة فقط التي بيدها الدف كاملة وملونة)، كما يلي: "هيده الكتاب الترجما [الترجمان] إلى العبد الفقير يوسف بن حنا توما الماروني."
On folio 61a: A dated ownership statement, as follows: "al-Faqīr al-ḥaqīr al-ṣāḥib al-mahīn, sanat 1092 [1681/1682]."
على وجه الورقة 61: مدونة تملك مؤرخة، كما يلي: "الفقير الحقير الصاحب المهين، سنة 1092 [1681/1682]."
On folio 61b: Statements in Ottoman Turkish.
On the end pages statements in Italian.
In beautiful and large naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the Ottoman Turkish terms written beneath the Arabic terms in red; headings in red; catchwords.
Colophon: "Tamma wa-kamula bi-ḥamd [Allāh] wa-ʻawnih wa-ḥusn tawfīqih. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Tammat. Tammat."
الخاتمة: "تم وكمل بحمد [الله] وعونه وحسن توفيقه. وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم. تمت. تمت."
Translation of the colophon: "It is concluded and completed by the praise of God, His help and His abundant benevolence. May God pray of our Master Muḥammad, his family and his companions and grant them peace. It is concluded. It is concluded."
In Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
"al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah", a textbook of miscellaneous vocabularies and glossaries in Arabic with their corresponding equivalents in Ottoman Turkish, written for the benefit of a certain "Aḥmad", the son of a high ranking, unnamed dignitary, by Ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (Molla Sâlih, Mullā Ṣāliḥ, Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ), who was teaching at the Eşrefiyye medrese (al-Madrasah al-Ashrafīyah) in Cairo, referred to as Shaykh al-Arwām, and was alive in the year 1029 of the Hijrah (1619/1620). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned. However, according to the date 1088 of the Hijrah (1677/1678) written on folio 1a, the manuscript might have been copied in the early 17th century.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2020
References
Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Mawlānā ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ, al-Shudhūr al-dhahabīyah wa-al-qiṭaʻ al-Aḥmadīyah fī al-lughah al-Turkīyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 17th century.
Manuscripts, Turkish - 17th century.
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