[Kitāb al-Mashāʻir maʻa al-ʻArshīyah,
193-?].

[كتاب المشاعر مع العرشية, 193-م؟].

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Main Author
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641.
Related Names
Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, -1641.
Language(s)
Arabic
Published
[193-?].
Subjects
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Sufism > Early works to 1800.
Islamic philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Metaphysics > Early works to 1800.
Ontology > Early works to 1800.
Summary
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.
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 909
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 58
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 "شواهد التحقيق | المرتضوى | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and tears to cloth at upper board corner.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.
Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, modern hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 25-29 lines per page.
Collation: Pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer margin from p.4 to p.20 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "ثم الحيوان ثم الانسان فاذا استكمل بالعلم والعمل والكمال بلغ درجة العقل الفعال فيه يقف تركيب الخير والجود واتصل اوله آخر درجات الوجود تم بعون الملك الودود ... انك بذلك جدير وبكل خير حقيق" ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "هذه الامة في الابوة المعنوية كنية آدم ع الى"
Incipit: [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "باسمك اللهم وبحمدك نفتح هذا المقال ونصلي ونسلم على نبيك مركز دائرة الجلال ... نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فاقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "بسمك اللهم وبحمدك الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره للاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو ربه الجليل محمد بن ابراهيم المدعو بصدر الدين ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."
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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 7955" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil at close on p.104 "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses in the hand of the copyist.
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52 leaves : paper ; 312 x 210 mm. bound to 321 x 217 mm.
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