Hādhihi Majmūʻah min taʼlīfāt al-muʻallim al-thānī Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī tashtamilu ʻalá thamāniyat rasāʼil awwaluhā Risālat al-Jamʻ bayna al-raʼyayn al-Aflāṭūnī wa-al-Arisṭī,
[1355, i.e. 1937].

هذه مجموعة من تأليفات المعلم الثاني ابي نصر الفارابي تشتمل على ثمانية رسائل اولها رسالة الجمع بين الرأيين الافلاطوني والارسطي, [1355ه، 1937م].

Description

Main Author

Fārābī.

Related Names

Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

[Egypt?, 1937].

Subjects

Aristotle > Aristotle / Criticism and interpretation > Aristotle / Criticism and interpretation / Early works to 1800.
Plato. > Plato. / Critias > Plato. / Critias / Criticism and interpretation > Plato. / Critias / Criticism and interpretation / Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan > Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor.
Islamic philosophy > Islamic philosophy / Early works to 1800.

Summary

Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of works by the renowned Muslim philosopher, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al-Fārābī, referred to as Alfarabius or Avennasar in Latin texts, known as "the second teacher" (المعلم الثاني), the first being Aristotle.

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 906
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.162, transcription completed 19 Dhū al-Qaʻdah [13]55, corresponding to the 1st of February [19]37 and the 24th of Ṭūbah [1653].
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 55
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 vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title, author and owner, as well as decorative accents over raised bands "مجموعة ابي نصر الفارابي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, modern hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 26 lines per page.
Collation: i, 20 II(81), i ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals surmounted by kāf appears on the opening recto of each of the first three quires ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من تسويد هذه الرسالة في يوم الاثنين الموافق ١٩ من ذي القعدة ٥٥ وغرة فبراير س ٣٧ ق ٢٤ طوبة"
Title from inscription on '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 7945" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on 'title page' (p.1) "231 / 53" ; UM Library inscription on p.5 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; many marginal glosses ; notabilia (side-heads).

Physical Description

81 leaves : paper ; 310 x 212 (250-260 x 136) mm. bound to 322 x 217 mm.

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