Author
Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī
Publication Date
c 930 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Publication Place
Damascus? -
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Physical Dimensions
215 x 150 mm
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 13006, ff 98r-110v
Record ID
vdc_100023512370.0x00000b
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
c 930 (AH, Hijri qamari)
Notes
Excerpts from an anonymous and unattributed commentary on the alchemical poem
Shudhūr al-dhahab
by Abū Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Mūsá ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khalaf al-Anṣārī al-Jayyānī al-Andalusī, known as Ibn Arfaʿ Raʾs (died 593 AH/AD 1197).
The title in full is given as follows (f. 98r, 11-15): On the benefits transmitted from a brief explanation of the fragments, attributed sometimes to the virtuous sage Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Malik al-Armawi, sometimes to the virtuous sage Rukn al-Din [rest of line deleted]. May God’s mercy be upon the author of the collection and upon its commentators, whoever was.
In the full title, the scribe claims not to know the author of the
Shudhūr al-dhahab
, but the anonymous commentator names the author as Abū Mūsá ‘Alī ibn Abī al-Qāsim Mūsá al-Andalusī (Abu Musa Ali bin Abi al-Qasim Musa al-Andalusi; f. 103v, lines 5-6). For variations of this name found in the manuscripts, see Ullmann, 1972, p. 231. As for the author of this commentary, a note at the top of f. 98v reads This message is by the new author Rumi, may God have mercy on him (‘this treatise is by a contemporary Byzantine [
rūmī
] author - may God’s mercy be upon him’). At the end of the text (see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 110v, lines 19-21), the scribe explains that ‘up to this point, we have copied out the book in order; Next we excerpted it and copied it out following the notes in the
Ghayat al-surūr
’ (i.e. the
Ghayat al-surūr fī sharḥ al-Shudhūr
, ʿIzz al-Dīn Aydamar ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Jaldakī’s [d. 743 AH/AD 1342, Cairo] great commentary on the
Shudhūr al-dhahab;
See Ullmann, 1972, p. 239). Some folios appear to be missing after this because the commentary ends with these words.
Beginnings (f. 98v, lines 2-8):
We praise You, O God, praise those who know Your Oneness and act in Your wisdom. You created man
I preferred him over all other animals and made him the butter and compound of the world of the universe and corruption
Of two distinct essences that are not opposites, one of which is royal and spiritual, which is
The rational soul and the second animal body are close to moderation and were created
Everything was for him, since he had a body, a breath, and a spirit, and I gave him the mind that I loved
He derived from it all the professions and industries, and distinguished and specialized the intelligibles and the tangibles with it
With science...
Ends (f. 110v, lines 15-19):
So look, my brother, at the agreement of this meaning with the change of words, but how much is there between the word “al-Tughra’i” and the word “Sahib”?
The differences are as between the mute and the eloquent, the blind and the seeing, as mentioned above in the introduction, even if it is
Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Tughra'i is the closest of the latecomers to the stone of the wise, their management, and their symbols, and to know their secrets
And it agrees with their sayings and what they have stated in their books in a way that cannot be compared with anything else. For this reason we cited his saying and supported it.
With what he said, along with the words of the author of the fragments, their meanings are one and the same...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 110v, lines 19-21):
...So we wrote the book here
In order, then we elected it and wrote it in footnotes with great pleasure
Praise be to God alone
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