Item Summary

A collection of thirteen treatises on Islamic topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب اتفاق رأي الحكيمين افلاطون وارستطاليس ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ittifāq raʼy al-ḥakīmayn Iflāṭūn wa-Aristuṭālīs ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 464H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/k0698j01q
Publisher
Madīnah, 25 Muḥarram 1275 [September 4, 1858?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1858
Format
Manuscript
Extent
80, (1) leaves : paper ; 277 x 185 (205-220 x 118-120) mm bound to 274 x 195 mm.
Provenance
Illegible seal impression (fol. 80b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 794, 797, 2197, 798, 1584, 1501, 731, 796, 2191.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 372; II, p. 476; III, pp. 207/8; III, pp. 394/5;
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 632.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 2111, 2324/5
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 2049.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 87, 103³, 1158³²
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1930²
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-13a: Kitāb Ittifāq raʼy al-ḥakīmayn Iflāṭūn wa-Aristuṭālīs / lil-Ḥakīm al-faylusūf Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī. A treatise on the agreement between Plato and Aristotle. Followed by paragraphs on Plato and Aristotle.
3. fol. 13a-13b: Hādhihi Tafsīr baʻḍ asmāʼ al-ḥukamā min al-qudamā / li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī. An exposition of the names of some philosophers.
4. fol. 13b-17a: ʻUyūn al-masāʼil / li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī. A treatise on essential matters.
5. fol. 17a-19b: Hādhihi Risālah fīmā yanbaghī an yuqaddamu qabl taʻallum al-falsafah / li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī. A treatise on the prerequisites to the study of philosophy.
6. fol. 19b-27b: Hādhīhi Risālah fī al-mazāj bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl / li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī. A treatise on temperament.
7. fol. 27b-35b: Hādhā Sharḥ ʻalá al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-Ithbāt al-ʻaql li-Abī Naṣr al-Fārābī / Naṣr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. A commentary on Ithbāt al-ʻaql, a philosophical treatise attributed to Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī. A part of the text is in red and the rest is overlined with red.
8. fol. 35b-37a: Hādhihi Risālah īmān firʻawn / li-Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī. An expository treatise on Sūrah X:90 defending Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī on the controversial question as to whether the Pharaoh of Moses was a believer or not.
9. fol. 37a-55a: Hādhā Kitāb tahdīm al-arkān fī laysa fī al-imkān abdāʻ mimmā kān / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Biqāʻī. A treatise refuting the proposition of some philosophers that it is not possible to have anything more remarkable than what already exists. The writer also tries to refute some of the statements of al-Ghazzālī.
10. fol. 55b-64b: Risālat al-muḥākamāt / lil-Imām ʻAbd al-Raḥm̄an al-Jāmī. A theosophical treatise reviewing the opinions of Ṣūfīs, philosophers and metaphysicists confirming and defending the absolute existence of God, the reality of His names and attributes. The work is otherwise known as al-Durrah al-fākhirah.
11. fol. 64b-69a: Risālat khalq al-aʻmāl / li-Saʻīd al-Dīn Muḥammad al-maʻrūf bi-al-Istirābādī. A treatise dealing with the controversial question whether manʼs actions are preordained or not. In the title the work is wrongly attributed to Saʻīd al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Astarābādī, although in the preface it is stated that the work was composed at the request of al-Astarābādī.
12. fol. 69a-71b: Hādhihi Risālah fī taḥqīq māʼ al-ḥayāh aʻnī al-Khiḍr. A Ṣūfī treatise on the legendary figure of al-Khiḍr, discussing whether he was a saint or a prophet and concluding that he was the latter.
13. fol. 72a-77b: Hādhā Sharḥ ʻalá al-khamsah maqālāt al-falsafīyah / al-Baṭalyūsī. A commentary on five philosophical essays about God, His attributes, His knowledge, and about man, his soul and its immortality.
14. fol. 77b-80b: Hādhihi al-Risālah al-Ighrīḍīyah / li-Abī al-ʻAlā al-Maʻarrī. A treatise on miscellaneous matters such as grammar, logic and philosophy, written in answer to the letter of the Vizir Abū al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh al-Maghribī 370-418/981-1027.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Statement on fol. 1a that the MS consists of 81 leaves and 8 quires. Table on fol. 22a. Stated in colophon that MS was made from another copy in the library of the Shaykh al-Islām in al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 80 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page ; a few scattered folios are frame-ruled in different colors.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; some overlining, entries, and other use of blue ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (double-headed eagle topped by a crown holding a sword; shield with a face-in-the-moon; three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "Galvani") ; MS in excellent condition.
Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece in yellow, orange, blue, and green. Frame-ruled in yellow and black on fols. 1b and 2a.
Origin: [Tahdīm al-arkān] Copied 1275 -- [al-Risālah al-Ighrīḍīyah] The copy of the majmūʻah was completed Tuesday 25 Muḥarram 1275 by Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʻUmar al-Dimashqī in al-Madīnah (fol. 80b).
Incipit: [كتاب اتفاق راى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين انى لما رايت اكثر اهل زماننا قد خاضوا وتناذقوا في حدوث العالم -- [تفسير بعض اسماء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم انه من سليمان وانه افلاطون الصادق الفصيح -- [عيون المسائل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله وحده ... العلم يتقسم الى تصور مطلق كما يتصور الشمس والقمر -- [ما ينبغي ان يقدم] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توكلت على الله قال ابو مصر الفارابى الاشيا التي تحتاج الى تعلمها ومعرفتها -- [رسالة في المزاج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه لله ذي العظمة والجلال المنزاه ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في المزاج والاوزان على ما ذهب اليه الجمهور -- [شرح رسالة اثبات العقل] بسم الله ... اعلم انا لانشك في کون الاحکام اليقينية -- [رسالة في ايمان فرعون] بسم الله الرحمن ... الحمد لله قابل توبة العبد اذا تاب -- [تقديم الارکان] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الحميد المجيد الفعال لما يريد -- [رسالة المحاکمات] بسم الله الرحمن ... الحمد لله الذي تجلى بذاته لذاته -- [رسالة في مسألة خلق الاعمال] بسم الله الرحمن ... اما بعد حمد الله فتاح القلوب -- [تحقيق ماء الحيوة] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الغني الاحد الصمد بالذات -- [شرح على الخسمة مقالات الفلسفية] بسم الله ... قال الشيخ الامام الفقيه الاستاذ الحافظ
Colophon: [كتاب اتفاق راى] تمت الرسالة -- [تفسير بعض اسماء] انتهى -- [عيون المسائل] تمت الرسالة بعون الله والله اعلم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم -- [ما ينبغي ان يقدم] تمت وصلى الله على محمد م -- [رسالة في المزاج] تم ذلك بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه والحمل لله رب العالمين وصلى على سيدنا محمد م م م -- [شرح رسالة اثبات العقل] تمت الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم -- [رسالة في ايمان فرعون] تمت الرسالة لمولانا جلال الدين محمد الدواني رحمة الله عليه -- [تقديم الارکان] تم نسخه في رابع رجب سنة 1275 الهجرية م -- [رسالة المحاکمات] فيسمى ذلك کسبًا والله اعلم م م م -- [رسالة في مسألة خلق الاعمال] والله تعالى ولي التوفيق. تمت الرسالة-- [تحقيق ماء الحيوة] وهذا اخرما اردنا بيانه والحمد لله رب العالمين. قد تمت هذه الرسالة. ع ظ م -- [شرح على الخسمة مقالات الفلسفية] تم هذا الکتاب
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue embossed paper. Blind-stamped mandorla and pendants of red leather pasted on covers and flap. Text block largely separated from binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Arab—Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Ancient—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Early works to 1800
Khiḍr (Legendary character)—Early works to 1800
Fārābī—Ithbāt al-ʻaql
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
illuminated manuscripts
headpieces (layout features)
tables (documents)
Stamps
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
170

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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