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Manuscript/Mixed Material al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt النجوم الشارقات في ذكر بعض الصنايع المحتاج إليها في علم الميقات

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Title

  • al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt

Other Title

  • النجوم الشارقات في ذكر بعض الصنايع المحتاج إليها في علم الميقات

Summary

  • Text is divided into 25 chapters.
  • The colophon of the present manuscript--on the recto of the second folio--offers a potentially misleading view of the subject of this 16th-century treatise by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ḫayr al-Ḥasanī. Al-Nujūm al-Šāriqāt fī dikr baʻḍ al-ṣanā'īʻ al-Muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻIlm al-Mīqāt (The rising stars in the mention of some of the arts required in the science of timekeeping) does not deal with the measurement of time but with the art of painting. In particular, the treatise is devoted to the materials, inks, pigments, and instruments needed by the painter. The first page of the manuscript does not belong with the main text and is written in a later hand, possibly the same hand that penned the extensive notes that fill the margins of some of the pages of this work. The treatise describes in detail various methods for obtaining pigments and inks from different inorganic and organic materials, such as mastic, sandarac, sulfur, cinnabar, lapis lazuli, and safflower. The treatise deals with the ways of testing the quality of colors as well and devotes a chapter to the use of glues for preparing the surface of writing or painting paper. World Digital Library.

Names

  • asanī, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Khayr, active 16th century
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18--?]

Contents

  • Page before title page contains a note on making leather in Maghibī script. Chapter on painting (pp. 82-84; in same hand as principal text) follows text on writing materials.

Headings

  • -  Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc.--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Painting, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  Writing materials and instruments--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Binding: cardboard, with leather spine.
  • -  Fol. 1a-42b (numbered 1-84).
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-757.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Nastaʻliq script; 17 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Paper: pp. 1-64 and 77-80 are yellowed cream, with watermarks; pp. 65-76 are from off-white paper, with watermarks (initials AG), but written in the same hand as pp. 1-65 and 77-80. Pp. 81-84 written in different hand on different paper (no chain lines or watermarks, very thin, darker). Medium condition; black stains on title page and brown stains on pp. 33-36. Text is mainly in black, with some rubricated words and chapter headings. Many marginal notes on some pages. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Title from introduction, p. 2.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم . . . الحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات، وأشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له شهادة تنجى قايلها من المهلكات، وأشهد أن سيدنا محمد عبده ورسوله أفضل المخلوقات، صلى الله عليه وعلى أله وأصحابه السادة الثقات صلاة وتسليما دايمين متلازمين على ممر الدهور والأوقات ....

Medium

  • 42 leaves (17 lines), bound : paper ; 23 x 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z45 .H37 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401928

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Asanī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Al-Khayr, Active 16Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt. [18--?, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401928/.

APA citation style:

Asanī, M. I. A. A., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1800) al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt. [18--?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401928/.

MLA citation style:

Asanī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Al-Khayr, Active 16Th Century, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. al-Nujūm al-shāriqāt fī dhikr baʻḍ al-ṣanāīʻ al-muḥtāj ilayhā fī ʻilm al-mīqāt. [18--?, 1800] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401928/>.