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Item Summary
Collection of three treatises on metaphysical questions.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- فوائد قدسية ... [الخ.].
- Transliterated Title
- Fawāʼid qudsīyah ... [etc.].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, New Series no. 994
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/nv9352912
- Publisher
- [1653-1655]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1653-1655
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 91 leaves : paper ; 240 x 135 (162 x 80) mm bound to 240 x 140 mm.
- References
- Mach, R. and Ormsby, E. Handlist of Arabic manuscripts (New Series), 897, 1083, 1092
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Contents
- 1. fol. 1b-34b: Fawāʼid qudsīyah wa-asrār malakūtīyah [or: Risālat al-qidam wa-al-ḥudūth] / Mullā Shamsā Jīlānī. Treatise on metaphysical and theological matters.
- 2. fol. 37b-44b: [Risālah fī ʻilm Allāh] / Mullā Shamsā Jīlānī. Treatise on God's knowledge.
- 3. fol. 45b-91b: Risālah fī ithbāt ḥudūth al-ʻālam / Mullā Shamsā Jīlānī. Treatise on the beginning in time of the world, completed at the beginning of Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1045 (note on the margin of fol. 91b).
- 4. fol. 45b-50b (on the margins): Mukhtaṣar dar taʻrīf aṣṭurlāb, in 20 bāb.
- Notes
- Ms. composite codex.
- Title provided by cataloger.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Marginal notes. On fol. 1a: Table of contents (partly illegible; mentions a treatise by al-Suhrawardī). Seal impression on fol. 1b. Vertical label on the spine (half wanting; number "68" in Arabic numerals).
- Collation: Paper, fol. 91 ; 1-4⁸ 5⁴ 6-11⁸ 12⁸ (-1, after fol. 91) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 20 lines per page.
- Description: Light cream glazed paper. Some leaves have been mended (see fol. 1). Water damaged.
- Origin: Origin: [Risālah fī ʻilm] Copied in Ramaḍān 1063 or 64 (fol. 44b) -- [Risālah fī ithbāt] Copied on 3 Shaʻbān 1065 (fol. 91b).
- Explicit: [فوائد قدسية] لدخول النار وصحبه الاشرار واحشرنا فى الدنيا والاخرة مع محمد واله الاطهار صلوات الله تعالى وتسليماته عليه وعليهم اجمعين برحمتك يا ارحم الراحمين -- [رسالة في اثبات] چون مى بينى كه اهل مجلس كورند اى شمع بهرزه ميكدار مى خودرا -- [رسالة في علم] فى الصفات الثبوتية الكمالية الثابتة فى مرتبه ذاته بذاته مع قطع النظر عن كلما عدا ذاته تمت الرسالة
- Incipit: [فوائد قدسية] الحمد لله خالق الكل وباعث الرسل وهادى السبل والصلوة ... اما بعد فيقول افقر ... محمد الشهير بشمسا الجيلانى غفر الله ... هذه فوائد قدسية واسرار ملكوتية وقواعد عقلية -- [رسالة في اثبات] الحمد لله الذى تفرد بالقدم والازلية واختص بالوجوب والسرمدية ... فيقول افقر خلق الله ... هذه رسالة في اثبات حدوث العالم قد اتفقت منّي بمحض فضل ربي -- [رسالة في علم] بسم ... وصلى الله على سيدنا رسول الله محمد واله ... اعلم ان العالم قسمان احدهما العالم الذي يكون علمه زايدا على ذاته وذلك العلم الزايد على الذات منحصر فى الحصولى والحضورى
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) limp binding in dark brown leather.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Creation (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- Islamic philosophy—Iran—Early works to 1800
- Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
- Shīʻah—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Early works to 1800
- God (Islam)—Omniscience—Early works to 1800
- Free will and determinism—Religious aspects—Islam—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Stamps
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 186
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/44a8e346-91bd-4efb-90ae-17e3668c40b9/manifest





















