Author
one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers
Publication Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 16659, ff 524v-552r
Record ID
vdc_100148048612.0x000023
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1182 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Treatise on dream interpretation here falsely attributed to Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (Abu Ali Al-Hussein bin Abdullah), known as Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037). The text is in fact by one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers, the physician ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī (Isa bin Yahya Abu Sahl al-Christi al-Jurjani, fl. 1010).
A cancelled
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
at the end of the text states that the copy was completed by Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Muḥammad Naṣīr al-Lāhijānī al-Gīlānī (Ibn Muhammad Amin Muhammad Nasir al-Lahjani al-Kilani) on Nowrūz, Wednesday 18 Ṣafar 1091/10 March 1680 for his patron Muḥammad Taqī ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥakīm al-Gīlānī al-Lashteh-yi Nishāʾī (Muhammad Taqi ibn Muhammad Husayn al-Hakim al-Kilani al-Lashteh Nishā’i), a resident of Akbarābād (Agra, f. 552r, lines 21-26, transcribed below). This
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
must have been copied from the exemplar since it predates the
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
of text 6 (f. 34v) by almost a century. A similar cancellation of concluding material copied from the exemplar but extraneous to the main body of the text is seen in item 7, above (f. 100v, lines 18-25; in that case not a
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
but editorial material appended to the Medicean 1593 printed edition of Avicenna's
Kitāb al-Najāh
).
Cancelled
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 552r, lines 21-26):
...This honorable message, called the Epistle of Manamiya, was completed at the hands of the lowest of creation
Rather, nothing in reality, by the son of Muhammad Amin Muhammad Nusayr al-Lahjani al-Kilani on Wednesday the eighteenth
The month of Safar corresponds to the Persian Nowruz, in the service of the dearest brother, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, the Most Compassionate, the departed
In knowledge and work, Muhammad Taqi bin Muhammad Hussein Al-Hakim Al-Kilani, Al-Lashtah, is a Nash’i origin
The inhabitant of the home of the Caliphate, Akbarabad, a country in Hindustan, in the year one thousand ninety-one
From the migration (!) of the Prophet, the Chosen One, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
Rieu, Charles,
Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum
, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions and translations:
Khan, M. ʻAbdul Muʻid, 'A Unique Treatise on the Interpretation of Dreams by Ibn Sina, Edited with an Introduction,'
Avicenna Commemoration Volume
(Calcutta: Iran Society, 1956), pp. 257–307
Khan, M. ʻAbdul Muʻid, 'Kitabu Taʻbir-ir-Ruya of Abu ʻAli b. Sina',
Indo-Iranica
9 (1956), 15–57
Study:
Gutas, Dimitri,
Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works
, 2nd ed., including an
Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works
(Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), p. 526
