Author
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641, Sadr al-Dīn Shirāzī, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original
صدر الدين شيرازي، محمد بن ابراهيم
Publication Date
1930
Subject
Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
48 leaves : paper ; 168 x 120-135 mm. bound to 175 x 141 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194802634
Record ID
990068334890106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1930s (exact date unknown)
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer., Incipit: “O God, bless the center point of B, the initial circle, and the secret of the mysteries of the Polar Alif... Introduction Hujjat al-Islam Abu Muhammad al-Ghazali said that the side of truth has a chest, and at the front of the chest is a wide field and field, and at the beginning of the field is a threshold... For all of this, it is necessary for us, before embarking on divinity, to provide an introduction that includes an explanation of the human truth and the worlds in it as a whole, so we say the truth of man is the truth of an association whose unity is like the unity of the world. A composition with many levels of abstraction, embodiment, purity, impurity, light and darkness...”, Explicit: “And just as His Essence, the Most High, is a principle... of things by His Essence, so is His knowledge, for He, the Almighty, is knowledgeable of all existing things.”, Collation: Cathwords present; pages between two main sections left blank (see pp.48-49) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written in 9-11 lines per page., 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., Decoration: Text executed almost entirely in red ink., Support: Machine wove paper of two different types, both sturdy, cream in color., 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 "The Beginning and the Resurrection" ; 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., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 129, Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974)., 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., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 980
Sample Text
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).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641. Mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād. Abridgment., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
Heyworth-Dunne Collection.
Referanslar
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II 413 ; S II 588 ff., MacEoin, D. "Mullā Ṣadrā S̲H̲īrāzīṢadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Ḳawāmī S̲h̲īrāzī." In EI2, vol. VII, p.547, col. 2, Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Shīrāzī. al-Mabdaʻ wa-al-maʻād. edited by Jalāl al-Dīn Āshtiyānī. [Tehran] : Anjuman-i Shāhanshāhī-i Falsafah-ʼi Īrān, 1976.
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in the Fall of 1950.
