Mulakhkhaṣ muʻẓam mā kutiba ʻalá al-Hayākil al-nūrīyah al-Suhrawardīyah,
[193-?].

ملخص معظم ما كتب على الهياكل النورية السهروردية, [193-م?].

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Heyworth-Dunne, J. (James), former owner.
Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513.
Language(s)
Arabic
Published
[193-?]
Subjects
Suhrawardī, Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash, > 1152 or 1153-1191. > Hayākil al-nūr.
Manuscripts, Arabic > Michigan > Ann Arbor.
Islamic philosophy > Early works to 1800.
Ishrāqīyah > Early works to 1800.
Sufism > Doctrines > Early works to 1800.
Summary
Careful copy of a concise selection of commentaries on Shihāb al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Ḥabash al-Suhrawardī's (d.1191) Hayākil al-nūr, opening with excerpts from Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī's (d.1502 or 3) Shawākil al-ḥūr.
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Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 975
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. 124
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 "تلخيص شروح هياكل النور | السهروردى | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.
Support: Wove paper.
Script: Naskh with influence of ruqʻah ; compact modern hand in a thin to medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.
Layout: Written mainly in 33-41 lines per page.
Collation: Pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.
Explicit: "اي من الحواس الباطنة القوة الفكرية المرتبة في البطن الاوسط من الدماغ وهي التي بها التركيب والتفصيل والاستنباط"
Incipit: "يا من نصب رايات آيات قدرته على كواهل هياكل الممكنات واودع اسرار حكمته فى قوابل شواكل الكائنات ..."
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. 7919" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.60) "231 / 53" ; a few interlinear corrections in same black ink.
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30 leaves : paper ; 224 x 178 mm. bound to 233 x 184 mm
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