Author
Bax, Ernest Belfort, 1854-1926.
Publication Date
[193-?]
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Philosophy, Philosophy /
History.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
184
Physical Dimensions
184 leaves : paper ; 310 x 210 mm. bound to 321 x 220 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006825663
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of what appears to be an Arabic rendering of Ernest Belfort Bax's (1854-1926) Handbook on the history of philosophy, followed by an addendum on Neo-Hegelianism (see p.354 to close). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 925
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 74
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 "تاريخ باكس | 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 thin to medium line (line thickness changes) ; 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 26-28 lines per page.
Collation: Some leaves between sections left blank (see pp.182-183, 234) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "في شكل حضور اجتماعي متحد يدخل تحته حضور العضوي الى الفرد الجزئي"
Incipit: "في موضوع الفلسفة وفي اخذ الاسم ادواراشتي [؟] قد لا يكون من الحكمة والسداد في شيء ان نظير البيان في هذا المجمل ..."
Title from inscription at opening (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 7966" ; UM Library inscription on p.1 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; marginal glosses.
