Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Muslims, Muslims /
Conduct of life, Muslims / Conduct of life /
Early works to 1800., Islamic ethics, Islamic ethics /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
46
Physical Dimensions
46 leaves : paper ; 338 x 230 mm. bound to 345 x 239 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006825748
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of an anonymous abridgement of Abū ʻAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Miskawayh's (d. 1030) treatise on ethics, Tahdhīb al-akhlāq wa-taṭhīr al-aʻrāq . | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 934
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. 83
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 " تنوير | الآفاق | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.
Script: Ruqʻah ; compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of tilt to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 27 lines per page.
Collation: i,4 V(40), III (46), i (as suggested by quire numbering, sewing virtually impossible to examine) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanied by letter kāf (ك) appearing on the opening recto of each gathering from the second (see pp.21, 41, 61, 81) ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "ولم يظهر الجزع عليه وقال انني ما ولدت ولدا لا يموت وانما ولدت ولدا يموت هذا هذا [كذا] وحيث ذكرنا كثيرا من الامراض وذكرنا علاجاتها فليتسعن بهذا النموذج طالب الصحة والشفاء ... فانه سيجد شفاءها بالاستنباط مما ذكرناه والله يتولي هداه وليكن هذا آخر ما اوردنا تلخيصه من كتاب تهذيب الاخلاق وتطهير الاعراق للحكيم الفاضل ... احمد بن محمد بن مسكويه ... والسلام على من اتبع الهداية ففاز بالحسنى والدراية آمين ولنتبع ذلك برسالة الفوز الاصغر المعروفة النسبة الى المصنف"
Incipit: "نحمدك اللهم ولا نحصى ثناء عليك ونستغفرك ونسترضيك ونتوب اليك ... اما بعد فان الله تعالى بعد ان خلق الخلائق وذرأ البرايا اصطفى منها نوع الانسان وجبله من طين مؤلف من مختلف الاركان ... وكان مما ظفرت به يدي واسعدني به دهري كتاب تهذيب الاخلاق وتطهير الاعراق للحكيم الفاضل الفيلسوف الكامل الاستاذ الامام ابي علي احمد بن محمد بن يعقوب بن مسكويه ... فلهذا وذاك وجدتني نشطا الى تهذيبه وتلخيصه ... فما زلت اعاني النفس في ذلك ... فذلكة الكتاب والكتاب يشتمل على مقدمة ومقالات اربع ..."
Title 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 7975" ; UM Library inscription on verso of front flyleaf "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.92) "231 / 53" ; numerous marginal glosses in the hand of the copyist.
