Author
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641, Sadr al-Dīn Shirāzī, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James)
Author Original
صدر الدن شيرازى، محمد بن ابراهيم
Publication Date
1937
Publication Place
[Egypt?] -
Subject
Ontology -- Early works to 1800, Metaphysics -- Early works to 1800, Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800, Sufism -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
50 leaves : paper ; 310 x 210 (250-255 x 134) mm. bound to 322 x 217 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194778746
Record ID
990068190070106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
1937
Notes
Ms. codex., Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and heading at opening of second work (p.49)., Incipit: [Risālat al-Mashāʻir] The first and the white afterlife are based on the refinement of the perfect powers that can be completed... And then he says, “The least in power and guilt of creation, and the most sinful and guilty, is Muhammad, who is famous for Sadr al-Din.” He says, “O brothers, who seek God in the light of knowledge...” [al-ʻArshīyah] “Praise be to God who has made us among those who have opened his heart to Islam, for he is upon the light of his Lord... And then the humble servant who is in need of the pardon of his Lord, the Magnificent, who is called the Sadr al-Din, says... This is a message in which I mention a group of matters of the Lord...”, Explicit: [Risālat al-Mashāʻir] “Then plants, from their purest form, then animals, then man. When he is completed with knowledge, work, and perfection, he reaches the level of effective reason in him. The synthesis of goodness and generosity has ceased, and its beginning has been connected to the last levels of existence.” [al-ʻArshīyah] “A basis in the divine reality that revealed Paradise... and it has total and partial manifestations that are the layers of Hell... The tree of Zaqqum is the food of the sinful, its pollen looks like the heads of devils.”, Colophon: “Scribal,” reads “It was done with the help of the Friendly King who is the overflow of goodness and existence on Thursday, the first of Rabi’ al-Thani 1356, the 10th of June 1937,” Collation: i, 12 II(48), I (50), i [?] ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization., Layout: Written in 26 lines per page., Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, modern hand, in a medium line; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots., Support: Lined / ruled wove paper., Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding); Western style binding; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetable pattern in green; spine gold-stamped with title, author and owner, as well as decorative accents over raised bands “Message of Feelings | Al-Shirazi | J.H.D.” ; sewing is difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition., Former shelfmark: Mich. Island. Ms. temp. no. 56, Accompanying materials: " a. Slip of paper: 7946 b. Slip of paper: 14365" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.49, transcription of opening work completed 1 Rabīʻ II 1356 corresponding to 10 June 1937., 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 7946" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on final leaf (p.100) "231 / 53" ; many marginal glosses and notabilia (side-heads)., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 907
Sample Text
Careful copy of two works by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), first Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, followed by al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology, apparently incomplete.
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner., Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641. Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251211
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
Elde Ediliş
Acquired in the Fall of 1950.
