Publication Date
[193-?]
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
48
Physical Dimensions
48 leaves : paper ; 168 x 120-135 mm. bound to 175 x 141 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006833489
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Careful copy of what appears to be the opening sections of an abridgment of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī's (d.1641) al-Mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād (compare Isl. Mss. 979 and 965). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 980
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. 129
Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in olive green or dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "المبدأ والمعاد" ; stab sewn in white thread, tightly bound (gatherings difficult to discern and second section perhaps simply composed of individual leaves rather than gatherings of bifolia), some leaves loose ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Machine wove paper of two different types, both sturdy, cream in color.
Decoration: Text executed almost entirely in red ink.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a thin line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.
Layout: Written in 9-11 lines per page.
Collation: Cathwords present ; pages between two main sections left blank (see pp.48-49) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "وكما ان ذاته تعالى مبدأ ... للاشياء بنفس ذاته كذلك علمه فهو جل وعز علم بجميع الموجودات"
Incipit: "اللهم صل على نقطة مركز باء الدائرة الاولية وسر اسرار الالف القطبية ... مقدمة قال حجة الاسلام ابو محمد الغزالي ان لجناب الحق صدر وفي مقدمة الصدر مجال وميدان رحب وعلى اول الميدان عتبة ... لهذا كله وجب علينا قبل الشروع في الربوبيات تقديم مقدمة مشتملة على بيان الحقيقة الانسانية وما فيها من العوالم اجمالا فنقول حقيقة الانسان حقيقة جمعية وحدتها كوحدة العالم وحدة تأليفية ذات مراتب كثيرة من التجرد والتجسم والصفاء والكدورة والنور والظلم ..."
Title supplied by cataloguer.
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. 7924" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; some marginal glosses.
