Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

al-Ḥawḍ. Baḥr al-dumūʻ.
الحوض. بحر الدموع

Authors

• Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749
  هوزالي، محمد بن علي،
• Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749
  هوزالي، محمد بن علي،
• Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749
  هوزالي، محمد بن علي،

Other related names

• Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1911
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977508749303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1096281769

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Tashelhit / Shilha

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1850?

Place

Morocco

Summary

Copy of a set of works on Islamic theology and ritual practice written in Tashelhit (Shilha) in Arabic letters. Several leaves of the first work have been rewritten by a different copyist on smaller paper; the last work is missing the conclusion and the last few lines of the chapter. The works were composed in the early 18th century, between 1707 and 1714.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A prayer, to be said four times in the morning and the evening, has been inscribed on the last flyleaf verso by a later owner.
   

Extent

189 leaves : 230 x 170 (170 x 90) mm bound to 235 x 187 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in Western Arabic numerals in black ink, upper left recto (unnumbered, 4-100; 1[00]-[1]32). Modern foliation added in pencil to continue the sequence, upper left recto (133-164). A loose quire of 4 bifolia on machine-made paper, paginated (1-7), is laid in at the front of the copy. The first few leaves of the copy are damaged around the edges; the number is missing from one. Catchwords every verso, lower left, perpendicular to text.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in reddish brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II). Embossed paper onlay central mandorla and blind tooled intersecting lines and frame on both covers and flap.

Layout

Chiefly 19 long lines; loose quire in 14 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, vocalized.

Provenance

• Acquired by Talcott Williams on an expedition to Morocco for the Department of Archaeology and Paleontology at the University of Pennsylvania, June 26, 1897 (memorandum laid in).
   

Subjects topical

• Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800
• Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800
• Islamic law--Early works to 1800
• Tamazight poetry--Morocco--Texts
• Berber poetry--Morocco--Texts

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts, Tashelhit--18th century
• Manuscripts, Tashelhit--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• p1 — al-Ḥawḍ
• Loose leaf 4 recto — Item tag: Expedition in Marocco

Decorations

• Loose leaf 2 recto — Notations
• Loose leaf 2 verso — Notations
• Loose leaf 3 recto — Notations