[Mukhtārāt min al-Ṭabīʻīyāt ... etc., 193-?].

Careful copy of assorted excerpts from al-Ṭabīʻīyāt, the section on natural sciences from Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Shifāʼ, opening with excerpts from Kitāb al-Nafs (fann 6), al-Nabāt (fann 7), al-Ḥayawān (fann 8), al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam (fann 2), and al-Kawn wa-al-fasād (fann 3) and bound together with what appears to be a work on ʻilm al-kalām, as well as a working draft of an anonymous treatise on modern philosophy, addressing Hegel, etc., the opening page of which appears to have been mistakenly bound into Isl. Ms. 913 (see p.3 of that volume).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 916Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 65Binding: 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 "بقاء النفس ابن سمنا [كذا]| J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine, but appears to be over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper of at least two different types.Decoration: Section headings and keywords rubricated or in purple ink (multiple shades of red also used).Script: Ruqʻah ; two or three compact hands ; opening hand (also supplying a few other sections) quite neat and carefully executed in a bold line, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, strong horizontal character adhering consistently to the baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; section headings in naskh or tawqīʻ ; from p.19 to p.178, a quick hand in a medium line with slight effect of inclination to the right ; from p.179 to close, hand similar to the opening hand but in a much thinner line.Layout: Written mainly in 25 lines per page.Collation: In section carrying Kitāb al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam, pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals (appearing on every other page) and one quire numbered (see p.219) ; in section carrying draft treatise on modern philosophy, (p.237 to close) verso of each leaf left blank and foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats p.291 two additional times).Explicit: "ذلك الصفيع الذي كان هو القدح المعلي في خلال وغضون النصف الاخير من القرن التاسع عشر تم الكتاب"Incipit: "قد استوفينا الكلام في الفن الاول على الامور العامة في الطبيعيات ثم تلوناه بالفن الثاني في الأجرام السماوية والعالم والصور والحركات الأولى في عالم الطبيعية وحققنا أحوال الأجسام التي تفسد والتي لا تفسد ثم تلوناه بالكلام على الكون والفساد وأسطقساته ثم تلوناه بالكلام على أفعال الكيفيات الأولى وانفعالاتها والأمزجة المتولدة عنها وبقى علينا ان نتكلم على امور الكائنة ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.12. 3. p.237-p.477 : Madkhal al-falsafah al-ḥadīthah.11. 2. p.235-p.236 : [blank].10. p.233-234 : [excerpt from al-Kawn wa-al-fasād] / Ibn Sīnā.9. p.232 : [blank].8. p.231 : [title page for al-Nabāt].7. p.179-p.230 : al-Fann al-thānī min Ṭabīʻīyāt al-Shifāʼ fī al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam / Ibn Sīnā.6.19-p.178 : [excerpt from what appears to be a work on ʻilm al-kalām, opening in the second chapter and continuing with al-Iʻrāḍ, al-Jawāhir, al-Ilāhīyāt, and al-Samʻīyāt and concluding with a preface for the excerpt, followed by the introduction and first chapter, al-Umūr al-ʻāmmah].5. p.17-p.18 : [excerpt from Kitāb al-Nafs] / Ibn Sīnā.4. p.16 : [blank].3. p.15 : [excerpt from] al-Fann al-thāmin fī al-Ḥayawān min jumlat al-Ṭabīʻīyāt / Ibn Sīnā.2. p.3-p.14 : [excerpt from al-Nabāt] / Ibn Sīnā.1. p.2 : [excerpt from Kitāb al-Nafs] / Ibn Sīnā.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of assorted excerpts from al-Ṭabīʻīyāt, the section on natural sciences from Ibn Sīnā's Kitāb al-Shifāʼ, opening with excerpts from Kitāb al-Nafs (fann 6), al-Nabāt (fann 7), al-Ḥayawān (fann 8), al-Samāʻ wa al-ʻālam (fann 2), and al-Kawn wa-al-fasād (fann 3) and bound together with what appears to be a work on ʻilm al-kalām, as well as a working draft of an anonymous treatise on modern philosophy, addressing Hegel, etc., the opening page of which appears to have been mistakenly bound into Isl. Ms. 913 (see p.3 of that volume).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7957" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on verso of final leaf (p.478) "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses ; interlinear corrections (in lavender pencil, mainly in draft work from p.237 to close)

al-Ghāʼib al-mastūr fī ṭayy al-ḥāḍir al-mashhūd min Ishārāt al-Raʼīs Abī ʻAlī, [193-?].

Carefuly copy of a selection of extracts from Ibn Sīnā's (d.1037) al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, opening in al-Namaṭ al-rābiʻ and concluding with al-Namaṭ al-sābiʻ.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 978Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 127Binding: Boards covered in textured black cloth with black leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in pink and green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "الغائب المفقود للاشارات" ; sewn in heavy white thread, seemingly over two recessed cords (difficult to examine) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion at spine and board edges.Support: Wove paper.Decoration: Text executed entirely in a pinkish-red ink.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; opening leaves in a more carefully executed naskh with elements of ruqʻah.Layout: Written in 10-12 lines per page.Collation: i, 3 V(30), V-1 (39), i ; exclusively quinions ; pages between sections (corresponding to gatherings) left blank, with some serving as section 'title pages' (see pp.21, 41, 61) ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "قد عرفت اصناف المقدمات في مواضعها النمط الثامن في البهجة والسعادة"Incipit: "النمط الرابع في الوجود وعلله انه قد يغلب على اوهام الناس ان الموجود هو المحسوس وان ما لا يناله الحس بجوهره ففرض وجوده محال ..."Title from inscription on opening 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Carefuly copy of a selection of extracts from Ibn Sīnā's (d.1037) al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, opening in al-Namaṭ al-rābiʻ and concluding with al-Namaṭ al-sābiʻ.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7922" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; a few interlinear and marginal corrections in same red ink ; a few marginal glosses (see p.2 and p.25)

al-Qawl al-tāmm fī al-niẓām : al-nuẓum al-ilāhīyah fī al-akwān, [193-?].

Careful copy of excerpts from a philosophical work attributed to Ibn Sīnā (d.1037).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 986Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 135Binding: 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 "النظم الالهية | ابن سينا | J.H.D." ; sewn in white thread over two recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition though with curvature in boards (negative draw in lower board, positive draw in upper board).Support: Wove paper.Decoration: Text executed entirely in red ink.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written mainly in 15-17 lines per page.Collation: i, IV (8), II (12), 2 IV(28), II (32), VI (44), I (46), 2 IV(62), I (64), i ; mainly quaternions and binions or single bifolia ; catchwords present ; pages left blank between sections with a few serving as 'title pages' (see pp.57, 65, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "عماهم فيه فسألوا ربكم درجاتهم واصبروا على نوائب دهركم تدركوا سعيهم"Incipit: "ومما يدل على ذلك ان المانع من قبول الفيض التضاد والكثافة الطبيعية ولذا اذا تركبت الاجسام البسيطة المتضادة الطبائع واعتدلت استعدت بذلك لقبول الفيض والحياة بقدر الاعتدال والتوسط الذي هو تنزه عن جميع الاضداد وجمع لها باسرها ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of excerpts from a philosophical work attributed to Ibn Sīnā (d.1037).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown, label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7930" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional marginal glosses

al-Ishārat wa-al-tanbīhāt, [193-?].

Careful though incomplete copy of Ibn Sīnā’s (d.1037) al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 998Origin: Lacks dated colophon, though likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). As appears on 'title page' for section five (see p.99), copied by the anonymous "ا ع" who has identified himself as the copyist of other manuscripts eventually bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), see Isl. Ms. 905, Isl. Ms. 910, Isl. Ms. 937, Isl. Ms. 981, Isl. Ms. 988 and likely Isl. Ms. 929.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 147Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with black 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 "متن الاشارات | J.H.D." ; sewn in cream thread over three recessed cords ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact hand in a bold line ; serifless and freely ligatured with effect of inclination to the left and of words descending to baseline, mainly closed counters, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed.Layout: Written mainly in 11-13 lines per page.Collation: i, IV (8), V (18), VIII (34), VII (48), VI (60), 3 VIII(108), i ; an assortment of gatherings with several octonions ; blank pages left between sections (each corresponding to a gathering) with some serving as 'title pages' for those sections (see pp.3, 19, 39, 71, 99, etc.) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Explicit: "ولعلك تقول ايضا فان كان القدر فلم العقاب فتأمل جواب ان العقاب للنفس على خطيئتها كما ستعلم فهو كالمرض للبدن على نهمه فهو لازم من لوازم ما ساق اليه الاحوال الماضية التي لم يكن من وقوعها بد ولا من وقوع ما يتبعها واما الذي يكون على جهة اخرى من مبدء له من خارج فحديث اخر"Incipit: "الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وبعد فهذه اشارات الى اصول وتنبيهات على جمل يستبصر بها من تيسر له ولا ينتفع بالاصرح منها من تعسر عليه وعلى الله التكلان ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful though incomplete copy of Ibn Sīnā’s (d.1037) al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown, label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No. 7942" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; occasional glosses