Author
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641.
Publication Date
[1938]
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
33
Physical Dimensions
33 leaves : paper ; 311 x 209 mm. bound to 319 x 215 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006832328
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of an abridgement of the Shawāhid al-rubūbīyah, one of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī's (d.1641) last works summarizing his main teachings. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 940
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.65, transcription completed at the first of the Hijrī year corresponding to 1938 [i.e. March 1938]. Likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 89
Binding: Boards covered in black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "شواهد | الربوبية" ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper ; some cockling.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium to bold 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, final yāʼ usually unpointed.
Layout: Written in 26-27 lines per page.
Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وكان الفراغ من تسويد هذه الاوراق في غرة السنة ... الهجرية سنة ١٩٣٨ والله يتولانا ... ويوفقنا كافية السعادة وحسن الختام"
Explicit: "وهذا الروح هو الذي قوبل بالملائكة جميعهم والى هنا تم المرام فاح مسك الختام ولاح بدر التمام"
Incipit: "مقدمة ان حقيقة الانسان حقيقة جمعية وحدتها كوحدة العالم وحدة تأليفية ذات مراتب واطوار كثيرة من التجرد والتجسم ..."
Title from heading at opening on p.2.
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 8340" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; numerous marginal glosses in the hand of the copyist.