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

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749.

Contributor:

Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928, former owner.

هوزالي، محمد بن علي، -1748 أو 1749،

Language:

Berber (Other)

Subjects (All):

Islam--Customs and practices--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Islamic law--Early works to 1800.

Islamic law.

Tamazight poetry--Morocco--Texts.

Tamazight poetry.

Berber poetry--Morocco--Texts.

Berber poetry.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Morocco], [between 1750 and 1850?]

Language Note:

Tashelhit / Shilha.

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.

Contents:

1. p. 1-7; f. unnumbered-[1]32v: al-Ḥawḍ

2. f.133r-165v: Baḥr al-dumūʻ

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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.

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

Script: Written in maghribi in brown ink; pointed, vocalized.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

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.

Origin: Likely copied in Morocco in the second half of the 18th or first half of the 19th century.

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.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1911.

Contains:

Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749. Ḥawḍ.

Hawzālī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1748 or 1749. Baḥr al-dumūʻ.

هوزالي، محمد بن علي، -1748 أو 1749، حوض.

هوزالي، محمد بن علي، -1748 أو 1749، بحر الدموع.

OCLC:

1096281769