Publication Date
[1938]
Subject
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar,, Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, /
1322-1389?, Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, / 1322-1389? /
Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-al-kalām., Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash,, Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, /
1152 or 1153-1191., Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, / 1152 or 1153-1191. /
Hayākil al-nūr., Qurʼan., Qurʼan. /
Sūrat al-Nūr, Qurʼan. / Sūrat al-Nūr /
Criticism, interpretation, etc., Qurʼan. / Sūrat al-Nūr / Criticism, interpretation, etc. /
Early works to 1800., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Arabic poetry, Arabic poetry /
History and criticism., Logic, Logic /
Early works to 1800., Bahai Faith., Sufism, Sufism /
Terminology, Sufism / Terminology /
Dictionaries, Sufism / Terminology / Dictionaries /
Arabic, Sufism / Terminology / Dictionaries / Arabic /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Dictionaries, Sufism / Dictionaries /
Arabic, Sufism / Dictionaries / Arabic /
Early works to 1800., Islam, Islam /
Doctrines, Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Sufism, Sufism /
Doctrines, Sufism / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Ishrāqīyah, Ishrāqīyah /
Early works to 1800., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
250
Physical Dimensions
250 leaves : paper ; 310 x 212 mm. bound to 321 x 222 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006825644
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of mainly philosophical and Ṣūfistic texts opening with excerpts from the commentaries by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (d.1502 or 3) and Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī Shīrāzī (d.1542) on Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash al-Suhrawardī's (d.1191) Hayākil al-nūr. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 923
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.99, transcription of opening work completed 27 Muḥarram 1357, corresponding to 29 March 1938 and 20 Baramhāt [1654]. As appears in colophon on p.125, transcription of second work completed 2 Ṣafar 1357, corresponding to 3 April 1938 and 25 Baramāt 1656 [1654]. Likely copied in Egypt and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 72
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 الدواني | وشرح مير غياث | 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 thin to bold line (line thickness varies considerably) ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 26 lines per page.
Collation: Pages between works left blank with some serving as 'title pages' (see pp.101, 129, 425) ; Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization ; pagination in black ink and pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals supplied for most of second work (pp.103-121) ; text of p.145 has been struck through by the copyist and is accompanied by a marginal note in which he explains his error.
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "قد وقع الفراغ في يوم الثلاثاء الموافق ٢٧ من محرم ١٣٥٧ المطابق ليوم ٢٩ من مارس ١٩٣٨ والمصادف للعشرين من برمهات شهر الخيرات والبركات" ; "Scribal," reads "كمل هذا التلخيص في ثاني صفر الخير ١٣٥٧ ثالث ابريل ١٩٣٨ ٢٥ برمات ١٦٥٦"
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 7964" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on 'title page' (p.1) "231 / 53" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; marginal glosses.
