Item Summary

Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح فصوص الحكم / تأليف الشيخ الامام والحبر البحر الهمام مؤيد ابن صاعد ابن محمود ابن محمد ابن محمود ابن سليمان الجندي ... .
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam / taʾlīf al-Shaykh al-Imām wa-al-ḥabr al-baḥr al-humām Muʾayyid ibn Ṣāʻid ibn Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd ibn Sulaymān al-Jandī ... .
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1402Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/n296x1747
Publisher
[14--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400
Extent
320 leaves : paper ; 235 x 130 (182 x 83) mm. bound to 235 x 130 mm.
Provenance
Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 2704
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 572 (11, cmt. c)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 793 (cmt. b)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from fol. 2a.
26 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with occasional use of red for rubrication. Ms. written in several different hands and some parts are of a later date than the rest. Thick dark cream glazed paper with visible laid lines and prominent fibres. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Fol. 4a has an inscription about the Fuṣūs al-Ḥikam signed by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Būrīnī al-Shāfiʻī (d. 1615 or 16). Fol. 1a has an obliterated ownership statement in the name of Abū al-Suʻūd [al-Kawkabī al-Ḥusaynī?]. Partially visible oblong ownership seal on fol. 5a and 6a.
Incipit: و الصلوة على محمد وآله واخوانه الكاملين ... واحمدها في مجامع الصدق واجمع مناهج المحقق ... اما بعد فان كتاب فصوص الحكم فى خصوص الكلم
Explicit: فعساه يكون من اهل النجاه والشداد والله ولى التوفيق والارشاد والاسعاد واهب الاستعداد ابد الاباد والحمد لله الاول الاخر الظاهر والباطن ... والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding Note
Brown leather with gold tooled border made with guilloche and fillets. Central mandorlas with pendants, blind tooled and painted in gold and red, on upper and lower covers. Remains of fore-edge flap lining in light brown leather. Brown leather doublures with gold fillet border and gold mandorlas in the centre.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
327

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1ad75c88-6bd7-4ec2-a029-9b33d74708dc/manifest