Author
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Jaʻbarī, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb,, Jaʻbarī, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb, /
-1300., Jaʻbarī, Arslān ibn Yaʻqūb, / -1300. /
Risālat al-tawḥīd., 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
112
Physical Dimensions
112 leaves : paper ; 315 x 210 mm. bound to 320 x 220 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006825725
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah / mecmua) of works by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), renowned philosopher of the Ṣafavid period. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 931
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. 80
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 "مجموعة رسائل ملا صدرا | محمد بن ابراهيم | 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, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written in 26 lines per page.
Collation: i, 14 IV(112), i ; exclusively quaternions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals with letter ك on opening recto of each quire ; calculations by the copyist to determine page count by multiplying number of pages in each quire blank (16) by number of quires seen at close or opening of a few quires (see pp.192, 193, 209, etc.) ; blank leaf inserted between page ١٥٢ and page ١٥٣ ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
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 7972" ; UM Library inscription on 'title page' (p.1) "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.224) "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses.
