Rasāʼil. 1-13 and 49-50

Title:

Rasāʼil. 1-13 and 49-50

Creator:

Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ.

Contributor:

Majrīṭī, Maslamah ibn Aḥmad, -1004?
Ibn al-Dhabbāḥ, Abū Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm, 1503-1577

Date:

1551

Description:

Abstract: "First thirteen epistles of the First part of the Rasāʼil Ikhwān al-ṣafāʼAbstract: along with Epistle 8 and 9 of the Fourth part. The work is attributed to al-Majrīṭī in a note on the margin of fol. 7a. The copyist is mentioned in al-Ghazzī's al-Kawākib al-sāʼirah bi-aʻyān al-miʼah al-ʻāshirah (ed. 1959)Abstract: vol. 3Abstract: p. 93."Binding note: Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind-tooled with a central roundel and an outer frame made of fillets.Contents: 1. fol. 2b-9b: al-Risālah al-ūlá min al-qism al-awwal fī al-riyāḍīyāt, fī al-ʻadad.Contents: 2. fol. 9b-17b: al-Risālah al-thāniyah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah al-Jūmuṭrīyā, wa-hiya al-madkhal ilá al-handasah).Contents: 3. fol. 17b-35a: al-Risālah al-thālithah min al-qism al-awwal (Fī al-madkhal ilá ʻilm al-nujūm).Contents: 4. fol. 35b-36a: Blank.Contents: 5. fol. 36b-54a: al-Risālah al-rābiʻah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah fī al-mūsīqī).Contents: 6. fol. 54b-62a: al-Risālah al-khāmisah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah Jughrāfīyā, wa-hiya ṣūrat al-arḍ wa-al-aqālīm).Contents: 7. fol. 62a-66b: al-Risālah al-sādisah min al-qism al-awwal ((Fī al-nasab al-ʻadadīyah wa-al-handasīyah wa-al-taʼlīfīyah).Contents: 8. fol. 67a-72a: al-Risālah al-sābiʻah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah fī al-ṣanāʼiʻ al-ʻamalīyahsic wa-kamiyat ajnās al-ʻulūm).Contents: 9. fol. 72a-77b: al-Risālah al-thāminah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah fī al-ṣanāʼiʻ al-ʻamalīyah).Contents: 10. fol. 77b-102b: al-Risālah al-tāsiʻah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah fī al-akhlāq).Contents: 11. fol. 102b-106b: al-Risālah al-ʻāshirah min al-qism al-awwal (Risālat Īsāghūjī wa-huwa al-madkhal ilá ʻilm al-manṭiq).Contents: 12. fol. 106b-109b: al-Risālah al-ḥādiyah ʻashar min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah fī taqsīm maʻānīal-ʻasharh al-alfāẓ allatī fī Qāṭāghūrīyās).Contents: 13. fol. 109b-113b: al-Risālah al-thāniyah ʻashar min al-qism al-awwal (Risālat Bārāmānīyās wa-Anālūṭīqā).Contents: 14. fol. 114-116a: Blank.Contents: 15. fol. 116b-123a: al-Risālah al-thālithah ʻashar min al-qism al-awwal (Risālah Anūlūṭīqā al-thānīyah wa-hiya fī al-burhān).Contents: 16. fol. 123b-126b: Blank, except inscription on fol. 126b.Contents: 17. fol. 127a-139a: al-Risālah al-thāminah min al-qism al-rābiʻ fī al-Nāmūsīyāt (Fī afʻāl al-Rūḥāniyīn).Contents: 18. fol. 139a-145b: al-Risālah al-tāsiʻah min al-qism al-rābiʻ (Fī anwāʻ al-siyāsāt).Contents: 19. fol. 146a-147b: Blank.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).31 lines per page. Written in small casual naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with pulp and chain? lines visible. Table of contents by a later hand on fol. 1b. Title written on the lower edge of the text block (hardly legible). Threat to mark the page on fol. 127.Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ḥikmah 20". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 66".Copied by Abū al-Ṣidq Abū Bakr ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn? ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik al-ḥakīm al-Bakrī al-Dhabāḥ al-Maqdisī al-Qādirī al-Ḥanbalī, khaṭīb bi-Jāmiʻ ...? Masjid al-Qadam in Damascus (colophon Risālah 3, fol. 35a and Risālah 12, fol. 113b). al-Risālah al-thālithah copied on 1 Jumādá al-Ākhar 958 (see fol. 35a). al-Risālah al-thāniyah ʻashar copied on Saturday 17 Jumādá al-Awwal 958 (see fol. 113b). Note dated 16 Jumādá al-Awwal 956 at the end of the copy, indicating that this is the end of the quires the copyist found (see fol. 145).Incipit: اعلم ايها الاخ البار الرحيم ... انه لما كان مذهب اخواننا الكرام ايدهم الله النظر فى جميع العلوم الموجودات التى فى العالم من الجواهر والاعراضExplicit: من تاويل الاحاديث فاطر السموات والارض انت وليي فى الدنيا والاخرة توفنى مسلما والحقنى بالصالحين والحمد لله وحده تم

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Islamic philosophy—Early works to 1800

Provenance:

Four ownership statements dated Rajab 1060 1650 to Rajab 1192 1778 on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Extent:

147 leaves : paper ; 184 x 135 (133 x 90) mm. bound to 187 x 144 mm.

Publisher:

Damascus?, 1551

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4263Y
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