Author
Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá | Faid Al-Kashi, Muhammad bin Murtada
Author Original
فيض الكاشي، محمد بن مرتضى
Publication Date
[193-?].
Publication Place
-
University of Michigan
Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic | Shīʻah Doctrines Early works to 1800. | Sufism Doctrines Early works to 1800. | more | less
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
24
Physical Dimensions
24 leaves : paper ; 165 x 103 mm. bound to 172 x 108 mm.
Library
Digital Library of the Middle East
Record ID
006832855
Library Location
University of Michigan
Date
[193-?].
Notes
Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 966 | 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. 115 | Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in dull gold ; cover gold-stamped with "الحكمة" ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition. | Support: Machine laid and wove paper of a few types ; opening type (through p.8 and again pp.25-32) machine laid, lined, with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.2, 4, etc. and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91) ; next type (pp.9-24, 33-40) also machine laid but unlined, no watermarks visible ; finally (p.41 to close) still another type, wove, unlined with same watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.42, 44, etc. and again compare Walz). | Decoration: Text executed entirely in red ink apart from that on pp.25-31, 39. | Script: Ruqʻah ; careful, compact hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots. | Layout: Written in 17-22 lines per page. | Collation: i, 6 II(24), i ; exclusively binions ; pages between sections (corresponding to gatherings) left blank, some serving as 'title pages' (see pp.8,9, 17, 25) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, presumably supplied during digitization. | Explicit: "الوقوف الصادق الوقوف مع مراد الحق الزمرد النقي" | Incipit: "الغراب كناية عن جسم الكل الغنى الملك التام والغنى للذات لا يكون الا للحق اما الغني من العباد فهو من استغنى بالحق ...الظل هو الوجود الاضا في الظاهر ... ذو العقل هو الذي يرى الخلق ظاهرا والحق باطنا ..." | Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1). | Ms. codex. | Careful copy of what may represent abridged excerpts from al-Kalimāt al-maḍnūnah bi-hā ʻan ghayr ahlihā by Muḥsin-i Fayz̤-i Kāshānī (d.1679) known as Mullā Muḥsin, a student of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641). | more | less
