Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd

Name: Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd
Author: Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431, Fanari, Muhammad ibn Hamzah, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)

Title	Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd
Author	Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431, Fanari, Muhammad ibn Hamzah, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original	صدر الدين القونوي، محمد بن إسحاق فاناري محمد بن حمزة
Publication Date:	1900
Publication Place	[Egypt? -
Subject	Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274. Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, God (Islam) -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	186 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155-168 mm. bound to 221 x 178 mm
Library:	University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID	1194688271
Record ID	990068339250106381
Library Location	UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date	Possibly between 1900-1920
Notes	Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and rubricated heading at opening on p.2., Incipit: [Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd] “O God, praise Yourself for Him whom You have commanded to take You as an agent of praise, returning from You to You, united with You, neither divided nor separated... And after that, the sciences are among them their original mothers.” [Miṣbāḥ al-uns] “Glory be to You, O God, and with Your praise there is a praise that pleases Your Essence, around whose most sublime glory there is neither mention nor word...”, Explicit: [Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd] II(28), 3 IV(52), V (62), IV (80), 7 II(98), 7 IV(154), V (164), III (170), 2 IV(186), i ; chiefly binions and quaternions; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the lower margin of the opening recto of almost every gathering; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written mainly in 9-13 lines per page with gloss in varying number of lines in the margins., Script: Naskh ; elegant modern hand in a medium line; Partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed, fully vocalized in some sections; glosses and closing portions of the matn in ruqʻah., Decoration: Headings, keywords, symbols, vocalization and glosses rubricated., Support: Machine laid and wove paper of several types; opening and later sections (mainly pp.2-56, 141-172) in a machine laid paper with watermarks of arms / scrollwork with seated Britannia under crown (see pp.2, 141, 156, etc.) and "HERTFORDSHIRE MILLS" (see pp.20, 143, etc.) ; other sections on a ruled wove paper (see pp.57-104, 311-340) ; still other sections (see pp.107-140,217-224, 341-372) in a machine wove type with watermarks (in a few instances seeming embossed, see p.114, etc.) of what appears to be a head portrait (bordered in branches with a ribbon) and tuğra / ṭughrā of the sultan; pp.245-292 in still another type with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.246, 258, 262, etc. and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91)., Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding); pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetable pattern in green; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "The Key to the Unseen of Combination and Existence \| J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe); overall in fairly good condition., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 142, Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests transcription in Egypt, perhaps the first decade of the 20th century or shortly after. Eventually 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. 7937" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning \| Heyworth-Dunne \| 6-11-51 \| 71955" ; possible former inventory mark "231/53" on verso of final leaf (p.372) ; extensive glosses., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 993
Sample Text	Careful copy of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's (d.1274) chief philosophical work, extensively glossed, with preface from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī's commentary Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd.
Katkıda Bulunanlar	Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431. Miṣbāḥ al-uns fī sharḥ Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd. Selections., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi	20251210
Biçim	Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda	Heyworth-Dunne Collection.
Referanslar	Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 449 ; S I 807, Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011): 73-108.
Elde Ediliş	Acquired in the Fall of 1950.

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Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd

Author Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274, Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi, Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431, Fanari, Muhammad ibn Hamzah, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)

Author Original صدر الدين القونوي، محمد بن إسحاق فاناري محمد بن حمزة

Publication Date 1900

Publication Place [Egypt? -

Subject Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, -1273 or 1274. Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, God (Islam) -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 186 leaves : paper ; 212 x 155-168 mm. bound to 221 x 178 mm

Library University of Michigan Library

Library Asset ID 1194688271

Record ID 990068339250106381

Library Location UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library

Date Possibly between 1900-1920

Notes Ms. codex., Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and rubricated heading at opening on p.2., Incipit: [Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd] “O God, praise Yourself for Him whom You have commanded to take You as an agent of praise, returning from You to You, united with You, neither divided nor separated... And after that, the sciences are among them their original mothers.” [Miṣbāḥ al-uns] “Glory be to You, O God, and with Your praise there is a praise that pleases Your Essence, around whose most sublime glory there is neither mention nor word...”, Explicit: [Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd] II(28), 3 IV(52), V (62), IV (80), 7 II(98), 7 IV(154), V (164), III (170), 2 IV(186), i ; chiefly binions and quaternions; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals in pencil in the lower margin of the opening recto of almost every gathering; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written mainly in 9-13 lines per page with gloss in varying number of lines in the margins., Script: Naskh ; elegant modern hand in a medium line; Partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, many open counters, pointing in conjoined dots, final yāʼ usually left unpointed, fully vocalized in some sections; glosses and closing portions of the matn in ruqʻah., Decoration: Headings, keywords, symbols, vocalization and glosses rubricated., Support: Machine laid and wove paper of several types; opening and later sections (mainly pp.2-56, 141-172) in a machine laid paper with watermarks of arms / scrollwork with seated Britannia under crown (see pp.2, 141, 156, etc.) and "HERTFORDSHIRE MILLS" (see pp.20, 143, etc.) ; other sections on a ruled wove paper (see pp.57-104, 311-340) ; still other sections (see pp.107-140,217-224, 341-372) in a machine wove type with watermarks (in a few instances seeming embossed, see p.114, etc.) of what appears to be a head portrait (bordered in branches with a ribbon) and tuğra / ṭughrā of the sultan; pp.245-292 in still another type with watermark of "GOUVERNEMENT EGYPTIEN" with star and crescent at center and other smaller crescents with three stars (see pp.246, 258, 262, etc. and compare Walz, "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan," p.91)., Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding); pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetable pattern in green; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "The Key to the Unseen of Combination and Existence | J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over three recessed cords; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe); overall in fairly good condition., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 142, Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests transcription in Egypt, perhaps the first decade of the 20th century or shortly after. Eventually 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. 7937" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark "231/53" on verso of final leaf (p.372) ; extensive glosses., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 993

Sample Text Careful copy of Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī's (d.1274) chief philosophical work, extensively glossed, with preface from Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī's commentary Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd.

Katkıda Bulunanlar Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah, 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431. Miṣbāḥ al-uns fī sharḥ Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd. Selections., Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.

Son Dizinleme Tarihi 20251210

Biçim Book, Manuscript, Available Online

Koleksiyonda Heyworth-Dunne Collection.

Referanslar Brockelmann, C. GAL, I 449 ; S I 807, Walz, Terence. "The Paper trade of Egypt and the Sudan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its re-export to the Bilad as-Sudan." In The Trans-Saharan book trade: manuscript culture, Arabic literacy, and intellectual history in Muslim Africa. Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon, Eds. (Leiden : Brill, 2011): 73-108.

Elde Ediliş Acquired in the Fall of 1950.