Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
84
Physical Dimensions
84 leaves : paper ; 164 x 102 mm. bound to 170 x 108 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006833475
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of what appears to be an abridgment of the first fann of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī's (d.1641) al-Mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād (compare Isl. Mss. 979, 980 and 965). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 971
Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 120
Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; cover gold-stamped with "سفر في الربوبيات" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Wove paper.
Decoration: Text executed entirely in pencil ; a few instances of overlining in red.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a thin line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.
Layout: Written in 11-17 lines per page.
Collation: i, 5 IV(40), 2 VIII(72), VI (84), i ; chiefly quaternions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "فاذا عرفت العناية الربانية في نفسك وبدنك فانظر الى الارض التي هي مقر جسدك ... قال وجاء ربك والملك وقال نزل الملائكة والروح فيها وعند هذا ... [؟] تعالى حسن الختام بجاه نبيه الوحيد عليه السلام آمين آمين آمين"
Incipit: "مقدمة حقيقة الانسان حقيقة جمعية وحدتها كوحدة العالم وحدة تأليفية ذات مراتب كثيرة من التجرد والتجسم ..."
Title from inscription on opening '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 7915" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; occasional marginal corrections and glosses.
