[Sharḥ al-Shaykh Bālī Afandī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, 193-?].

Careful copy of the commentary by Bali Efendi (death date given as 970/1553 in 'title page' inscription and in GAL) upon Ibn ʻArabī's celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī’s (d.1731) commentary on the same, entitled Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ fī ḥall kalimāt al-Fuṣūṣ.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 914Origin: 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. 63Binding: 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 "شرح فصوص الحكم | لبالى افندى | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper of two types, one slightly darker in color, in two different sizes i.e. opening through p.402 sized 312 x 212 mm., p.403 to close sized 302 x 205 mm.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, modern hand in a medium to bold line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written mainly in 26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly repeats pp.65-66) ; occasional repetition of final word on right-hand leaf (verso) on recto of following leaf.Incipit: "الحمد لله على دين الاسلام وعلى توفيق الايمان والاحسان والصلاة على محمد عليه السلام وعلى آله العظام واصحابه الكرام الحمد لله منزل الحكم على قلوب الكلم لما انزل الله تع الحكم على قلب الشيخ المصنف ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.2. p.682-p.685 : Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ fī ḥall kalimāt al-Fuṣūṣ [excerpt] / al-Nābulusī.1. p.2-p.682 : Sharḥ al-Shaykh Bālī Afandī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam / Bali Efendi.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of the commentary by Bali Efendi (death date given as 970/1553 in 'title page' inscription and in GAL) upon Ibn ʻArabī's celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī’s (d.1731) commentary on the same, entitled Jawāhir al-nuṣūṣ fī ḥall kalimāt al-Fuṣūṣ.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 7950" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark on verso of final leaf "231/53" ; marginal glosses in the hand of the copyist

[Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam ... etc., 193-?].

Careful copy of a collection of excerpts from three Ṣūfistic and philosophical works opening with Jāmī's (d.1492) commentary upon Ibn ʻArabī’s celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a very brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī's (d.1731) commentary on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam and closing with a lengthy excerpt from Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī's (d.1431) commentary on Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 918Origin: 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. 67Binding: 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 "شرح | عبد الرحمن الجامي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Mainly lined / ruled wove paper of at least two different types ; a few leaves of unruled wove paper.Decoration: Headings and text being commented upon rubricated.Script: Ruqʻah and naskh ; two modern hands ; opening pages in naskh, a spacious, modern hand in a bold line, partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of tilt to the left, curvilinear descenders, somewhat freely ligatured, many closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, final yāʼ usually unpointed ; thereafter in ruqʻah, initially (through p.266) a neat hand, serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right, pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots ; from p.267 a much quicker, coarser hand with effect of inclination to the right and slight effect of words descending to baseline.Layout: Written mainly in 25-26 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "الى هنا انتهى الاصل الذي بيدنا والذي نقلنا منه هذه النبذة ... والاصل هو السفر المسمى بمصباح الانس بين المعقول والمشهود شرح مفتاح غيب الجمع والوجود والشرح للعلامة الفنري [الفناري] والمتن لصدر الدين القنوي تلميذ الشيخ الاكبر بن عربي ... والله الامر في البدء والختم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليما والحمد لله رب العالمين"Incipit: [Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam] "الحمد لله الذي زين خواتم قلوب اولى الهمم بفصوص نصوص الحكم ... اما بعد فاعلم ان الحكم الفائضة من الحق سبحانه على قلوب كمل عباده ... فقصدت الى جمع شروحه وجعلتها مفاتيح ابواب فتوحه وطالعتها مرة بعد اخرى ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.4. p.445-p.446 : [blank].3. p.268-p.444 : Min Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd / Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī.2. p.267-p.268: Min al-Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikmīyah bi-sharḥ al-Nābulusī / al-Nābulusī.1. p.1-p.266 : [Sharḥ mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī ʻalá Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam] / Jāmī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of a collection of excerpts from three Ṣūfistic and philosophical works opening with Jāmī's (d.1492) commentary upon Ibn ʻArabī’s celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, a collection of aphorisms summarizing the teaching of 28 prophets from Adam to Muḥammad, followed by a very brief excerpt from ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ismāʻīl al-Nābulusī's (d.1731) commentary on Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam and closing with a lengthy excerpt from Miṣbāḥ al-uns bayna al-maʻqūl wa-al-mashhūd, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah ibn Muḥammad al-Fanārī's (d.1431) commentary on Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work.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 7959" ; 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.446) "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses