Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn maʻa Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān

Title:

Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn maʻa Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān
شرح حكمة العين مع حاشية ميزا جان

Alternative title:

شرح حكمة العين و حاشية [؟]

Creator:

Bukhārī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mubārakshāh
بخاري, محمد علي بن مباركشاه

Contributor:

İsmail Peyâsî, scribe
Mīrzā Jān, Ḥabīb Allāh
اسماعيل الپياسى, ناسخ
ميرزا جان، حبيب الله

Date:

[1626 to 1627].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 611Origin: As appears in colophon on p.316, Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn copied by Ismāʻīl al-Payāsī ( İsmail el-Peyâsî ) [al-Bayāsī, el-Beyâsî] in the madrasah of Mullā Aḥmad al-Chillī (Molla Ahmet el-Çillî) with transcription completed 3 Shaʻbān 1035 [ca. 30 April 1626]. As appears at close of ḥāshiyah on p.489, transcription completed 1036 [1626 or 7].Accompanying materials: a. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda -- b. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas.Former shelfmark: From interior of upper cover and label on fore edge flap "IL 191" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid, comb marbled paper (in orange, blue, etc., see flap) with black leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; fore edge flap lined in textile [linen ?] with stripes in green, purple, and white ; sewn in dull pink or light brown thread, two stations ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper, delamination and losses of boards, some pest damage, etc.Support: European laid paper of two main types ; opening work mainly in a paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 17-32 mm. apart (horizontal), and cross in an inverted teardrop watermark with letters below (55 mm. tall, see p.30, 31, 291, etc.), fairly thin and transluscent though sturdy, medium cream in color, well-burnished to glossy ; second work mainly in a paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart (horizontal), and anchor in circle with trefoil above watermark (see p.318, 320, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished.Decoration: Some abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining and textual dividers in the form of three inverted commas in red.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; four elegant Turkish hands ; bold, though compact, and virtually serifless with characteristic inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline, as well as exaggerated thickness of horizontal strokes.Layout: Written in 19 and 21-22 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 15 V(150), IV+1 (159), IV (167), V (177), 2 IV(193), 3 V(223), 3 IV(247), i ; Chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn) ; pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (entire volume), supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages each between p.73-74 and p.401-402).Colophon: [Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn] "Scribal," reads "قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماة بشرح حكمة العين في شهر شعبان في اليوم الثلاثة في وقت الضحى في ... في مدرسة ملا احمد الچلي سلمه [؟] الله العلي في تاريخ خمس وثلثين والف على يد اضعف الطلاب المحتاج الى رحمة الرب الغني غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه اجمعين امين يا مجيب السائلين اسماعيل الپياسى"Explicit: [Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn] "وليكن هذا اخر ما نورده في العلم الالهي ويتلوه القسم الثاني في الطبيعي والحمد لله على الاتمام وصلواته على محمد واله الاكرام وليكن هذا اخر ما اوردنا ايراده في شرح هذا القسم ولواهب العقل والحياة ومفيض العدل والخيرات حمد لا يعد ولا يحصى ... امين يا رب العالمين" ; [Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān] "فليزم ان لا يقدر العقل على تعقلهما هذا اخر ما تيسر لي في الابحاث المتعلقة بمباحث الامور العامة والحمد لله مفيض الخير والكرامة نسأل الله تعالى ان يوفقني الاتمام ما في الكتاب والصلوة والسلام على افضل روي الحكمة وفضل الخطاب تمت الحاشية الشريفة المنسوبة الى المولى المحقق والهمام المدقق مولانا ميزا جان رحمة الله عليه والرضوان المتعلقة على شرح حكمة العين تاريخ سنة ۱۰۳۶"Incipit: [Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn] "اما بعد حمد الله فاطر ذوات العقول ... فان المولى الفاضل والحكيم الكامل شمس الملة والدين محمد بن مبارك شاه البخاري يقول قد التمس مني بعض اخواني في الدين ... ان اكتب لكتاب حكمة العين من مصنفات المولى العلامة ... نجم الملة والدين علي بن عمر الكاتبي القزويني ... شرحا يذلل عن الالفاظ صعابها ويكشف عن وجه المعاني التي فيها نقابها ..." ; [Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān] "قوله [قال] ... الشاملة للمجرد والمادي ومقابلاتها اقول يحتمل ان يكون مقابلتها معطوفا ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.4. p.490 : [blank].3. p.318-p.489 : [Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān ʻalá Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn] / Mīrzā Jān Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shīrāzī al-Bāghandī.2. p.317 : [contents listing for Ḥāshiyat Mīrzā Jān].1. p.2-p.316 : Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn / Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mubārakshāh al-Bukhārī.Fine copy of the commentary by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mubārakshāh al-Bukhārī (d. ca. 1340) on Ḥikmat al-ʻayn, a treatise on metaphysics and the natural sciences by Najm al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Kātibī al-Qazwīnī (d.1276), followed by the gloss of Mīrzā Jān Ḥabīb Allāh al-Shīrāzī al-Bāghandī (d.1586) on Ibn Mubārakshāh's commentary.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Bukhārī, Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Mubārakshāh, d. ca. 1340. Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ʻayn.
Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 4-1276 or 7. Ḥikmat al-ʻayn.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Islamic cosmology Early works to 1800.
Islamic philosophy Early works to 1800.

Extent:

247 leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (150-155 x 70-80) mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
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