Yazar
Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 1599-1680 or 1681.
Basım Tarihi
[193-?]
Konu
Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Sufism, Sufism /
Early works to 1800., Islamic ethics, Islamic ethics /
Early works to 1800., Islamic philosophy, Islamic philosophy /
Early works to 1800.
Tür
Kitap
Dil
Arapça
Dijital
Hayır
Yazma
Bilinmiyor
Sayfa Sayısı
112
Fiziksel Boyutlar
112 leaves : paper ; 171 x 107 mm. bound to 179 x 115 mm
Kütüphane
HathiTrust Dijital Kütüphanesi
Kayıt Numarası
006833989
Lokasyon
University of Michigan
Notlar
About: Careful copy of selections from ʻIlm al-yaqīn, the work on mystical philosophy by Muḥsin-i Fayz̤-i Kāshānī (d.1679) known as Mullā Muḥsin, a student of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641). | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 997
Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Accompanying materials: Slip at close with inscription "علم اليقين ملا محسن العوالم" likely to note how the spine should be stamped (paginted pp.225-226).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 146
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 vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "علم اليقين ملا محسن العوالم | J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and slight spine slant.
Support: Sturdy machine wove paper.
Decoration: Text almost entirely executed in a pinkish-red ink (only pp.143-149 in a brownish-black ink).
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium 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.
Layout: Written mainly in 17 lines per page.
Collation: i, III (6), I (8), IV (16), 2 I(20), IV+I (30), 5 IV(70), VI (82), 3 IV(106), III (112), i ; chiefly quaternions ; pages between sections (mainly corresponding to gatherings though with a few constituting multiple gatherings) left blank with some carrying section titles in pencil (see pp.33, 41, 181, 213) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes insert).
Explicit: "والاسمى حقيقا والنية بينها كالنية بين المطر والثلج"
Incipit: "شرف العلم بشرف موضوعه فأشرف العلوم علم التوحيد لكون موضوعه ذات الله سبحانه وصفاته وبعبارة اخرى ووجه اعلى هو الموجود بما هو موجود ..."
Title from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).
Ms. codex.
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. 7941" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark "231/55" on verso of final leaf (p."360") ; occasional glosses and marginal corrections.