Author
Averroes, 1126-1198.
Publication Date
[1937]
Subject
Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī,, Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, /
1181 or 1182-1235., Ibn al-Fāriḍ, ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī, / 1181 or 1182-1235. /
Naẓm al-sulūk., Aristotle., Aristotle. /
Rhetoric., Aristotle., Aristotle. /
Metaphysics., Aristotle., Aristotle. /
De caelo., Aristotle., Aristotle. /
Physics., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Islam, Islam /
Doctrines, Islam / Doctrines /
Early works to 1800., Sufi poetry, Arabic, Sufi poetry, Arabic /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
212
Physical Dimensions
212 leaves : paper ; 310 x 210 mm. bound to 321 x 220 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006825687
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works beginning with Ibn Rushd's (Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, al-Ḥafīd, known in the West as Averroës) celebrated shorter commentaries on Aristotle's treatises on the natural sciences, as well as his Metaphysics and Rhetoric, followed by the commentary by ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Qāshānī (d.1330) [also attributed to ʻIzz al-Dīn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (d.1334 or 5), see GAL S I 464] on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's celebrated Ṣūfī poem in tāʼ, Naẓm al-sulūk or al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá. Contribution to the cataloguing from Tzvi Langermann. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 926
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.422, transcription completed 19 Rabīʻ I 1356, corresponding to 29 May 1937 and 21 Bashans 1653. Likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 75
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 "تلخيص | فلسفة ارسطو | الاندلسي | 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, initially carefully executed in a bold line, later much quicker in a finer line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of inclination toward the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written in 22-26 lines per page.
Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.14, 24, 42, 44, 67) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats pp.90-91).
Colophon: "Scribal," reads "وكان نسخ هذا الشرح في هذه النسخة واقعا في يوم السبت الموافق ١٩ من شهر ربيع الاول ١٣٥٦ والمطابق للتاسع والعشرين من شهر مايو ١٩٣٧ والمصادف للحادي والعشرين من شهر بشنس والحمد لله وحده اولا واخرا وبدأ واختتاما"
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 7967" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.422) "231 / 53" ; numerous marginal glosses in black ink.
