Kitāb fīhi Dīwān Abī al-Fatḥ ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz al-Bustī al-Kātib raḥimahu Allāh / كتاب فيه ديوان ابي الفتح علي بن محمد بن الحسين بن عبد العزيز البستي الكاتب رحمه الله
Extent: i, 78, i leaves : paper ; 171 x 130 (115 x 90) mm. bound to 178 x 135 mm.
Note:
Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 3a). Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for entries. Gold outlined in black for headings. The text is vocalized. Yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʼ dotted. Thick cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is a later addition. Chiefly quinions. Decoration: Illuminated title page in gold, blue, red, and white (fol. 3a). On the upper part of the page is a cartouche defined by a large border in gold outlined by two fillets in black ink, bearing the title in white on a gold and blue ground. The red line outlining the cartouche develops in the middle of the lower edge in two vertical lines which link the cartouche to a semi-circle placed... Decoration: Illuminated patronage statement (fol. 75b). The statement is written in white on a gold, blue, and red ground, in a medallion defined by fillets and outlined in blue with flecks. Collation: Paper, fol. i, 78, i ; i (free endpaper) i (fly-leaf ; fol. 1 in the modern foliation) 110 (-1at beginning of quire) 2-510 68 710 810 (-1 at end of quire) i (fly-leaf) i (free endpaper) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "Thālith" on fol. 21a). Patronage: Copied for al-jināb al-ʻālī al-Sayfī Jānim al-Khāṣṣakī al-Malakī al-Ashrafī (fol. 75b). Hitti identifies the patron with Jānim al-Ashrafī Barsbay (d. Rabī I 867/1463 ; see Sakhāwī. Ḍawʼ al-lāmiʻ, 3, p. 63, no. 255). See however also no. 254 in Ḍawʼ. Ownership statements, reading statements, and impressions of seals on fol. 2a and 77b (several obliterated), including one in the name of al-Ḥājj Aḥmad Zaytūnah. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Do you have more information to share with the Holding Institution about this manuscript or would you like to suggest a correction? Contact information is available for member institutions via our member directory.
