Author
Jämi, 1414-1492.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muhammad ibn Isḥāq,, Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, /
-1273 or 1274., Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, / -1273 or 1274. /
Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd., Ibn al-ʻArabī,, Ibn al-ʻArabī, /
1165-1240., Ibn al-ʻArabī, / 1165-1240. /
Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Doctrines, Sufism / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
223
Physical Dimensions
223 leaves : paper ; 307 x 210 mm. bound to 322 x 220 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006819201
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a collection of excerpts from three Ṣūfistic and philosophical works opening with Jāmī's (d.1492) commentary upon Ibn ʻArabī's celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a very brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī's (d.1731) commentary on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam and closing with a lengthy excerpt from Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī's (d.1431) commentary on Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's (d.1274) chief philosophical work. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 918
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 67
Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "شرح | عبد الرحمن الجامي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Mainly lined / ruled wove paper of at least two different types ; a few leaves of unruled wove paper.
Decoration: Headings and text being commented upon rubricated.
Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; two modern hands ; opening pages in naskh, a spacious, modern hand in a bold line, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, somewhat freely ligatured, many closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; thereafter in ruqʻah, initially (through p.266) a neat hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from p.267 a much quicker, coarser hand with effect of inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline.
Layout: Written mainly in 25-26 lines per page.
Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الى هنا انتهى الاصل الذي بيدنا والذي نقلنا منه هذه النبذة ... والاصل هو السفر المسمى بمصباح الانس بين المعقول والمشهود شرح مفتاح غيب الجمع والوجود والشرح للعلامة الفنري [الفناري] والمتن لصدر الدين القنوي تلميذ الشيخ الاكبر بن عربي ... والله الامر في البدء والختم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين"
Incipit: [Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam] "الحمد لله الذي زين خواتم قلوب اولى الهمم بفصوص نصوص الحكم ... اما بعد فاعلم ان الحكم الفائضة من الحق سبحانه على قلوب كمل عباده ... فقصدت الى جمع شروحه وجعلتها مفاتيح ابواب فتوحه وطالعتها مرة بعد اخرى ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).
Ms. codex.
On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7959" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.446) "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses.
