Item Summary

Commentary on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam by Ibn al-ʻArabī, followed by three short texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
Sharḥ al-Fuṣūṣ ... [etc.].
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3604Yq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cz30ps721
Publisher
[1407]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1407
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 126, ii leaves : paper ; 272 x 183 (210 x 129) mm. bound to 285 x 195 mm.
Provenance
Several ownership statements on fol. 1a and 2a, including one in the name of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, dated 1285 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2705, 2785, 2787
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1a: Table of contents.
2. fol. 1b: Fihrist al-Fuṣūṣ.
3. fol. 2a-124a: Sharḥ al-Fuṣūṣ / Dāwūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Qayṣarī.
4. fol. 125a: [al-Irshād fī al-dukhūl fī al-kufr] / Avicenna.
5. fol. 125a-126a: Risālah fī bayān miqdār al-sanah al-sarmadīyah wa-taʻyīn al-āyām al-ilāhīyah / ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī.
6. fol. 126a-b: Sharḥ suʼāl Kumayl ibn Ziyād li-Amīr al-Muʼminīn / ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāshānī.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger
41 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Orange-brown paper with laid and chain lines visible. Collation notes (see collation statement fol. 13b). On fol. 2a: Several ownership statements and other inscriptions. Title on the lower edge of the text block (hardly legible). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Fol. 35 and 49: red thread attached to the leaf.
Collation: Paper; fol. 126: i (endleaf; European paper with watermark) 1-12¹⁰ 13⁶ + i (endleaf; same paper). The quires are numbered using Arabic numerals. Small marks on the lower outer corner and upper outer corner of the opposite page indicating the middle of quires (see fol. 5b-6a).
Copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf (fol. 126b) in Jumādá al-Thānī(?) 810 (text 1, see fol. 124a) and Rajab 815 (texts 3 and 4, see fol. 126a and b).
Binding Note
Yellow and brown marbled paper pasted on pasteboards. Red paper pastedowns and fly-leaf.

Discovery Information

Subject
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
264

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d2e8aa0e-487b-4b6d-bce7-382618880646/manifest