Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل

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The record is made up of Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+278+ii. It was created in 16th century. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v

On the title page (f. 2r) and on the tail edge of the book block, the title is given as The Book of Dream Interpretation (كتاب تعبير المنامات) and the author is called al-ʻAllāmah ibn Shāhīn (العلامة بن شاهين). The author mentions that he wrote another treatise called The Shining Star Concerning the Principles of Interpretation (الكوكب المنير في أصول التعبير, f. 277r, line13).

A quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. has been bound into the volume upside down (ff. 14r-21v).

Begins (f. 2v, lines 2-5):

الحمد لله الذي خلق آدم من طين ثم نفخ فيه روحًا واصطفاه للرسالة كما اصطفى

إدريس من بعده ونوحًا واتخذ إبراهيم خليلًا وموسى كليمًا وإسماعيل ذبيحًا

ونصر هودًا على عاد وألان الحديد لداود ووسع لسليمان في الأرض روحًا

وسخر له ريحًا وأيد صالحًا بآياته وهارون برسالته وجعل المسيح آية وروحًا

Ends (f. 277r, lines 15-23):

... وختمت هذا الكتاب بفائدة شرعته مفيدة في الرؤيا

وهو ما روي عن عبد الأعلى بن النجم قال بت (؟) ليلة في أيام أبي حريش وابن حلف المغافري

بمصر وكانت ليلة جمعة وأنا أقول في نفسي لا أدري من اتبع لأبي حريش وأصحابه وهو يقول

بخلق القرآن أو لابن حلف وأصحابه وكان يقول إن القرآن كلام الله تعالى غير مخلوق قال

فلما أويت إلى فراشي ونمت رأيت هاتفًا قد جاءني وقال قم فقمت فقال لي قل فقلت وما أقول

قال قل سعد سبحان من رفع السماء بلا عماد للنظر فتزينت بالساطعات اللامعات وبالقمر

ما قال خلق بالقرآن بخلقه إلا كفر لكن كلام منزل من عند خلاق البشر وقال لي

اكتب فمددت يدي إلى كتاب من كتبي وكتبته فيه فلما استيقظت رأيته مكتوبًا في الكتاب

والله سبحانه وتعالى أعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب والحمد لله رب العالمين

Extent and format
Codex A collection of pages, usually gathered into quires, and bound between covers. ; ff. i+278+ii
Physical characteristics

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 199 x 145 mm leaf [160 x 105 mm written]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink; British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling: Misṭarah; 23 lines per page; vertical spacing 14 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; more than one scribe (changes of hand noticeable at ff. 81r, 83v, 143r and 155r)

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: None

Binding: Western maroon leather binding with blind-tooled medallion and pendants

Condition: Tidemarks in gutter at head and tail towards middle of volume; damage to tail and edge margins of ff. 2-7 repaired with some loss of text on ff. 5 and 6

Marginalia: Few by more than one hand

Seals: 83r (visible through verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. side of leaf, which has been pasted over with replacement leaf); British Museum stamp (ff. 1v, 2r, 14r, 71r, 169r, 277v and 278r)

Written in
English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
Type
Manuscript

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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Unrestricted

Archive reference
Add MS 9690

History of this record

Date(s)
16th century (CE, Gregorian)
Provenance
  • Ibrāhīm ibn al-... al-Ḥanafī (name mutilated through page trimming) (إبراهيم ابن الـ... الحنفي): his inscription without date (f. 2r);
  • ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī al-Manzalāwī (عبد الرحمن ابن علي المنزلاوي): his inscription with beginning of name and date mutilated through page trimming (f. 2r) and without date (f. 277v);
  • Muḥammad ibn al-marḥūm al-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Imām al-Wāfī Kātib al-? al-Kubrá (محمد ابن المرحوم الشيخ محمد الإمام الوافي كاتب الـ؟ـية الكبرى): his inscription without date (f. 2r);
  • al-Ḥamawī al-Mujallid (الحموي المجلد): his inscription with beginning of name mutilated through page trimming (f. 66r).

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Finding aids

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 763, p. 345

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Edition:

  • Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl, al-Ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt, ed. by Sayyid Kasrawī Ḥasan (Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah, 1993)

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