Publication Place
[193-?] -
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /Ann Arbor., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /Early works to 1800.
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
92
Physical Dimensions
92 leaves : paper ; 208-252 x 145-167 mm. bound to 262 x 180 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006834001
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 999 Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 148 Binding: Boards covered in dark blue textured cloth with dark blue 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 "العلم والعرفان" ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands in brown ; overall in fairly good condition. Support: Wove paper of at least two different types (and cut to different sizes), ruled and unruled. Decoration: Text of opening and closing sections entered in a pinkish red ink. Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; opening and closing sections in a quick, compact hand in a thin to medium 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 ; central section in first an elegant modern naskh (see pp.98-142), and then a heavy ruqʻah (see pp.142-172). Layout: Written mainly in 15-20 lines per page. Collation: i, V (10), IV (18), VII (32), VI (44), II (48), VI (60), VII (74), IV (82), 4 (86), III (92), i ; catchwords present in opening sections (through p.95) ; pagination in red ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals through p.8 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization. Explicit: "ولما كانت الموارد اربعة كان العرش محمولا على اربعة اركان" Incipit: "قال الله تعالى ومن يؤت الحكمة فقد اوتى خيرا كثيرا وقال صلى الله عليه وسلم الحكمة يمانية والعلم يمان اشراة الى انهما آتيان من قبل القوة النظرية فانها الجهة اليمنى والتي منها اليمن والبركة ..." Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1). Ms. composite 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. 7943" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional glosses.. Careful copy a selection of philosophical extracts and commentary in sections under the headings al-ʻIlm wa-al-ʻirfān (see p.1), Sharḥ qiṭʻah min awwal al-Fuṣūṣ al-ʻArabīyah (see p.56), al-ʻĀlam wāḥid (see p.65) and Shudhūr min al-Fann al-rubūbī min Funūn al-ḥikmah al-ʻulyā (see p.98). Sections from the opening text appear also in the final transcript (e.g. compare text of p.7 and p.121 under the heading "انقسام العلم على النظري والعلمي").
İlgili İsimler
Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
