Hādhihi hiya al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-ʻArshīyah

Title:

Hādhihi hiya al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-ʻArshīyah
هذه هي الرسالة المسماة بالعرشية

Alternative title:

Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah
رسالة العرشية
حكمة العرشية

Creator:

Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm
صدر الدين شيرازى، محمد بن ابراهيم

Contributor:

Heyworth-Dunne, J. former owner

Date:

[1934].

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 937Origin: As appears in colophon on p.60, copied by the anonymous "ا ع" (compare Isl. Mss. 905, 910, 929, 981, 988, 998) with transcription completed 4 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1352 [ca. 20 March 1934]. Likely copied in Egypt and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 86Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "رسالة العرشية | صدر الدين | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine, but appears to be in heavy white thread over perhaps four stations (see p.50) ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two types (trimmed to different sizes), both quite sturdy, one lined and beige in color (opening through p.40), the other unlined and cream in color (p.41 to close).Script: Ruqʻah ; compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with slight effect of tilt to the right, mainly closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written in 25-27 lines per page.Collation: i,2 V(20), V+1 (31), i (as suggested by gatherings, sewing difficult to examine) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering in the form of Hindu-Arabic numerals accompanied by letter kāf (ك) appearing on the opening recto of each gathering from the second (see pp.21, 41) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (through page ٤٤) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats pp.58-59).Colophon: "Scribal," reads "كتبه الفاني اع في الثلاثاء رابع ذي الحجة ١٣٥٢"Explicit: "على الظن والتخمين والاماني والخيال اعاذنا الله واخواننا الذين يؤمنون من شر الشياطين والمضلين ... انه سميع الدعاء وقريب مجيب وبالاجاء جدير وبالهداية الى اقوم سبيل ... آمين آمين آمين"Incipit: "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره للاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل محمد المدعو بصدر الدين ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from heading on incipit page (p.2).Ms. codex.Careful copy of al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology by Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), renowned philosopher of the Ṣafavid period.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Arabic
Islamic philosophy Early works to 1800.
Sufism Early works to 1800.

Extent:

31 leaves : paper ; 325-340 x 230 mm. bound to 345 x 238 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

Same as:

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006825789

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