Author
Hebrew Bar, 1226-1286.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Psychology, Psychology /
Early works to 1800., Soul, Soul /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
18
Physical Dimensions
18 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 mm. bound to 220 x 168 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006832853
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a concise treatise on the soul by Ibn al-ʻIbrī (d.1286). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 964
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. 113
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 "مقالة في النفس ابن العبري | J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread, difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.
Decoration: Opening heading rubricated.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written in 17-24 lines per page.
Collation: One page between sections (p.18) left blank ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "وتلك الاشرار آفتهم وشقاوتهم وعثرتهم وسقطتهم اعاذنا الله وحفظنا بعين عنايته ... وله الحمد والمجد وله النعمة والفضل في المبدا والمعاد والاولى والاخرى ومنه حسن الختام في الكمال والاتمام آمين"
Incipit: [transcription with contribution from Luke Yarbrough] "بسم الله خير الاسماء الحمد لله الذي ابدع الوجود بعد العدم ونفى بذلك عما سواه الازلية والقدم ...وبعد فهذا مقال مختصر وقول وجيز في علم النفس الانسانية لم نذكر فيه الا المهم من دواعي المطلوب ..."
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. 7908" ; 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.36) "231 / 53."
