Item Summary

Commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, with an introduction in 12 chapters which is sometimes found on its own and treated as a separate work under the title Maṭlaʻ khuṣūṣ al-kilam fī maʻānī Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح فصوص قيصري.
Transliterated Title
Kitab-i Şerh-i Fusus-i Kaysarî.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 140Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/jd473008b
Publisher
[1488]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1488
Format
Manuscript
Extent
293 leaves : paper ; 256 x 180 (173 x 118) mm. bound to 260 x 186 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, 2705.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 572 (11, cmt. e)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 793 (12, cmt. d)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title (in Ottoman) from fol. 1b.
The copying was completed on the 7th of Ramaḍān 893 (1488) -- colophon (fol. 292a). Collation note on the margin of the same fol. partially missing due to paper damage: collation completed on the 3rd of Jumādá al-Ūlá [...]89, probably 989 (1581) by ... Muḥammad Shafīʻ.
21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Text within a frame outlined in black ink filled with gold leaf and blue ink around it. Illuminated ʻunwān on fol. 1b made with gold leaf and blue, orange and yellow watercolors. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Some collation annotations in the margins throughout. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Few short inscriptions, several ownership statements dated variously 935, 1144, 1186, and 1226, and two obliterated seals on fol. 1a.
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى عين الاعيان بفيضه الاقدس الاقدم ... وبعد يقول ... داود بن محمود بن محمد الرومى القيصرى ... لما وفقنى الله تعالى وكشف على انوار اسراره
Explicit: والله يقول الحق بلسان الكاملين ويهدى سبيله المتوجهين اليه والطالبين وهو الموفق للرشاد ومنه المبدا واليه المعاد وهذا آخر ما اردنا بيانه والحمد لله على التوفيق والشكر لولى الحقايق والتحقيق
Binding Note
Brown leather with tooled border design and central mandorla with pendants pasted on covers, all worn and partially missing. Some evidence that these were painted, possibly gilt. Doublures in lighter brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-ʻArabī 1165-1240—Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam
Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800
Sufism—Doctrines—Early works to 1800
Metaphysics—Early works to 1800
God (Islam)—Wisdom—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
297

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/df5dde86-c8af-4709-bfe3-13129cf0b2ca/manifest