Descriptive Information

Title

لوامع الافكار المضيئة في شرح مخمس الماء الورقي والارض النجمية

Transliterated Title

Lawāmiʻ al-afkār al-muḍīʼah fī sharḥ Mukhammas al-Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah.

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 48B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p5547r43n

Publisher

[14--?]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1400-1499

Format

Manuscript

Extent

77 leaves : paper ; 203 x 142 (130 x 85) mm. bound to 220 x 150 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 940

Sezgin, F. GAS, IV, 288

Ullmann, M. Die Natur- und Geheimswissenschaften (1972), 240, n. 3

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).

The title and the name of the author appear on fol.(i)a (later hand) and on a modern label pasted on the spine.

At the beginning of the text, it is said that this commentary was completed in Damascus in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 741 H. [1340] (fol. 1b).

19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black and red ink. Incomplete at beginning and end. Collation notes. Light cream glazed paper with laid lines and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is repaired with the original text copied on the repair. Fol. 18 and 18bis are blank modern folios replacing missing original leaves (see catchword on fol. 17b). After fol. 76, 1 blank leaf (European glazed paper with watermark) and 17 blank leaves (modern paper, ruled). Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Incipit: ولمّا وصف شرف الصناعة قال في الرائية فاكبر به ملكا اذا قست كلما توهمت من مالك به كان اكبر ... [1ب] قال الحكيم محمد بن اميل التميمي رسالة الشمس الى الهلال ... قوله رسالة الشمس الى الهلال لفظ رسالة هو خبر

Explicit: نفسه ترتاح فهو ان الطيور من طبعها ان تسرح(؟) في عنصر تلك القوى

Binding Note

Brown leather over paper pasteboard, with paper pasted on upper and lower covers.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad active 10th century—Māʼ al-waraqī wa-al-arḍ al-najmīyah

Ibn Umayl, Muḥammad active 10th century—Risālat al-Shams ilá al-Hilāl

Alchemy—Arab countries—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

198

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/25afe0bd-e638-469a-aa2d-da2af1a1ca58/manifest

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