[Manṭiq Hayjal ... etc.,
ca. 1937].
[منطق هيجل ... الخ, ح. 1937م].
Description
- Language(s)
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Arabic
- Published
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[ca. 1937]
- Summary
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Careful copy of a collection (majmūʻah) of philosophical works, opening with an abridged Arabic translation of Hegel's Logic (Wissenschaft der Logik), followed by another abridged Arabic translation of Hegel's Logic in two sections, followed by a work on Hegel's life and thought in three sections, followed by a summary of philosophical developments from Kant to Hegel, followed by a section on modern philosophy from Bax's Handbook on the history of philosophy in four sections, and concluding with Ibn Rushd's (Averroës) celebrated shorter commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics in three sections.
- Note
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 924
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.114, transcription of the second gathering (kurrāsah) of the second work (an abridgment of Hegel in Arabic) completed 15 December 1937 corresponding to 12 Shawwāl 1356 and 6 Kiyāk [1654]. Likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).
Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 73
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 "منطق هيجل | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.
Script: Ruqʻah ; compact hand, initially carefully executed in a bold line, later much quicker in a finer line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of inclination toward the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.
Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page.
Collation: Pages between sections within works left blank, some serving as 'title pages' (see pp.81, 135, 155, 187, 207, 227, 303, 343) ; pagination in lavender pencil and black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (through p.60) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Colophon: [Manṭiq Jūrj Wīlhām Farīdrīkh Hayjal] "Scribal," reads "انتهى هذا الملخص من المنطق الهيجلي وقد وقع الفراغ منه في يوم الاربعاء الموافق للخامس عشر من ديسمبر ١٩٣٧ وللثاني عشر من شوال ١٣٥٦ وللسادس من كياك"
Title from rubricated heading on incipit page (p.2).
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 7965" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on 'title page' (p.2) "231 / 53" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; interlinear and marginal corrections in lavender pencil in opening work ; other corrections and numerous marginal glosses in black ink throughout.
- Physical Description
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183 leaves :
paper ;
312 x 210 mm. bound to 321 x 220 mm
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