Kashf al-wujūh al-ghurr li-maʻānī Naẓm al-durr : sharḥ Tāʼīyat Ibn al-Fāriḍ al-kubrá al-mushtahirah bi-Naẓm al-sulūk, [193-?].

Careful though incomplete copy of the commentary by ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Kāshānī (d.1334) on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's (d.1235) Naẓm al-sulūk or al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá, followed by opening excerpts from ʻUqlat al-mustawfiz of Ibn ʻArabī (d.1240).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 1000Origin: 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. 149Binding: Boards covered in black textured cloth ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a geometric pattern (resembling a scale pattern) in a light brown / dull gold color ; cover gold-stamped with "ابن الفارض" ; sewn in cream thread over two recessed cords ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper, dark cream in color.Decoration: Headings rubricated.Script: Naskh with influence of ruqʻah ; modern hand in a medium line ; partially but irregularly seriffed with effect of tilt to the left, slight effect of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, pointing in strokes or conjoined dots (typically oriented vertically), final yāʼ usually unpointed ; some passages in ruqʻah (see p.33 and p.36).Layout: Written in 15-30 lines per page.Collation: i, IV (8), III (14), II (18), i ; Pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Kashf al-wujūh al-ghurr] "والتشبيه والاتحاد والحلول ومحوها كلها تدل على كثرة ما" ; [ʻUqlat al-mustawfiz] "بين الهواء والتراب وجعل الهواء بين الماء والنار صف ٨٧ باب النكاح والتوالد ٩٤ باب نشاة الانسان الاول"Incipit: [Kashf al-wujūh al-ghurr] "الحمد لله الذي فلق بقدرته صبح الوجود عن دليلا وفتق بحكمته رتق الجمع في عين القدم ... اما بعد فمما شاع بين الناس ذكره وذاع امره ان انفع العلوم وارفعها بل صفاوتها ونقاوتها علم التوحيد ..." ; [ʻUqlat al-mustawfiz] "الحمد لله الواجب الذي افتتح وجود السوى بالارواح المهيمة المخلوقة بل المبدعة من فيض السبحات ..."Title from rubricated heading at opening on p.2.Ms. codex.2. p.32-p.36 : [opening excerpts from ʻUqlat al-mustawfiz] / Ibn ʻArabī.1. p.1-p.31 : Kashf al-wujūh al-ghurr li-maʻānī Naẓm al-durr / ʻIzz al-Dīn Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī al-Kāshānī.Ibn al-ʻArabī. Rasāʼil Ibn ʻArabī : al-Quṭb wa-al-nuqabāʼ wa-ʻAqlat al-mustawfiz wa-risālat al-anwār wa-al-Tadbīrāt al-Ilāhīyah wa-rasāʼil urkhrá, ed. Saʻīd ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ. (Bayrūt : al-Intishār al-ʻArabī, 2002),Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful though incomplete copy of the commentary by ʻIzz al-Dīn al-Kāshānī (d.1334) on Ibn al-Fāriḍ's (d.1235) Naẓm al-sulūk or al-Tāʼīyah al-kubrá, followed by opening excerpts from ʻUqlat al-mustawfiz of Ibn ʻArabī (d.1240).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. 8428" ; UM Library inscription at opening on p.2 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-12-51 | 71955.