Taʾwīl as-sūra al-mubāraka al-Fātiḥa

Ṣadr-ad-Dīn al-QūnawīIn arab. Schrift, arab

[Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt ... etc., 193-?].

Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 922Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; likely copied in Egypt in the late 1930s and bound for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974). Copy perhaps partly made from a printed edition.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 71Binding: 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 "اسرار الآيات | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Wove paper of two distinct types, one lined and one unlined.Decoration: Many opening headings and passages executed in contrasting purple ink ; others simply larger and bolded.Script: Naskh and ruqʻah ; two or three modern hands in a medium to bold line ; naskh partially but irregularly seriffed with slight effect of inclination to the left, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, words adhering to baseline, some elongation of horizontal strokes, occasionally more carefully executed ; ruqʻah, compact hand with slight effect of inclination to the right, serifless and freely ligatured with pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 21-25 lines per page.Collation: Pages between some sections left blank (see pp.37-40, 71-71) ; pagination in pencil, Hindu-Arabic numerals (first sixteen pages only) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: [Asrār al-āyāt] "Scribal," reads "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المسماه باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات للمحقق القويم صدر الدين الشيرازي الشهير وسوف نتبعها ان شاء الله تع بمتن العرشية ومتن المشاعر"Incipit: [preface] "نحمدك اللهم يا من تحيرت [؟] في بيداء كبريائه الالباب وغرقت في بحار معرفته عقول الاولياء ... وبعد فان هذا الكتاب المستطاب الذي هو قرة عيون اولى الالباب الموسوم باسرار الآيات وانوار البينات من مصنفات الحكيم الكامل ... صدر الحق والملة والدين محمد بن ابراهيم الشهير بصدر المتالهين الشيرازي ..." [Asrār al-āyāt] "هذا كتاب اسرار الآيات وانوار البينات لامام المتألهين محمد المعروف بصدر المتألهين الشيرازي طاب ثراه بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... نحمدك اللهم يا من بيده ملكوت الارض والسماء واليه تتشوق الكائنات ... اما بعد فيقول انزل خلق الله واحوجهم الى كرامة رب العالمين محمد المدعو بصدر الدين هذا بيان للناس وهدى ورحمة للمتقين ..." [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فان اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما محمد الشتهر بصدر الدين الشيرازي يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره بالاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو الرب الجليل ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title from preface on p.1 and heading preceding opening on p.2.Ms. codex.3. p.326-p.425 : Matn al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.2. p.268-p.326 : Kitāb al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.1. p.2-p.267 : Asrār al-āyāt wa-anwār al-bayyināt / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī.MacEoin, D. "Mullā Ṣadrā S̲H̲īrāzī Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Ḳawāmī S̲h̲īrāzī." In EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of the treatise on Qurʼān interpretation by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1640), followed by his Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, and al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology.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 7963" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on ’title page’ (p.1) "231 / 53" ; numerous marginal glosses and occasional corrections ; pp.69-70 carries excerpts in several different inks (purple, red and black) perhaps serving as pen trials

[Kitāb al-Mashāʻir maʻa al-ʻArshīyah, 193-?].

Careful copy of two works by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), first Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, followed by al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology, apparently incomplete.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 909Origin: 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. 58Binding: 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 "شواهد التحقيق | المرتضوى | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine ; stuck-on endbands (blue and white stripe) ; overall in fairly good condition with minor abrasion and tears to cloth at upper board corner.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, compact, modern hand in a medium to bold line ; 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.Layout: Written mainly in 25-29 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals, upper outer margin from p.4 to p.20 ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "ثم الحيوان ثم الانسان فاذا استكمل بالعلم والعمل والكمال بلغ درجة العقل الفعال فيه يقف تركيب الخير والجود واتصل اوله آخر درجات الوجود تم بعون الملك الودود ... انك بذلك جدير وبكل خير حقيق" ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "هذه الامة في الابوة المعنوية كنية آدم ع الى"Incipit: [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] "باسمك اللهم وبحمدك نفتح هذا المقال ونصلي ونسلم على نبيك مركز دائرة الجلال ... نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته التي انشأ بها نشأتي الآخرة والاولى على تهذيب القوى القابلة للاستكمال ... وبعد فاقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطأ وجرما يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "بسمك اللهم وبحمدك الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره للاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو ربه الجليل محمد بن ابراهيم المدعو بصدر الدين ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.49-p.103 : al-Risālah al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.2. p.48 : [blank].1. p.1-p.47 : [Kitāb al-Mashāʻir] / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.MacEoin, D. "Mullā Ṣadrā S̲H̲īrāzī Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Ḳawāmī S̲h̲īrāzī." In EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of two works by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), first Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, followed by al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology, apparently incomplete.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 7955" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil at close on p.104 "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses in the hand of the copyist

[Risālat al-Mashāʻir maʻa al-ʻArshīyah, 1356, i.e. 1937].

Careful copy of two works by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), first Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, followed by al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology, apparently incomplete.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 907Origin: As appears in colophon on p.49, transcription of opening work completed 1 Rabīʻ II 1356 corresponding to 10 June 1937.Accompanying materials: " a. Slip of paper: 7946 b. Slip of paper: 14365" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 56Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title, author and owner, as well as decorative accents over raised bands "رسالة المشاعر | الشيرازي | J.H.D." ; sewing difficult to examine but appears to be over cords, in white thread, five stations ; stuck-on endbands ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Script: Ruqʻah ; quick, modern hand, in a medium line ; serifless and freely ligatured with mainly closed counters, slight effect of inclination to the right and of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), pointing somewhat careless and in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 26 lines per page.Collation: i, 12 II(48), I (50), i [?] ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Colophon: "Scribal," reads "تم بعون الملك الودود الذي هو مفيض الخير والوجود في يوم الخميس غرة ربيع الثاني ١٣٥٦ ١٠ من يونيو ١٩٣٧"Explicit: [Risālat al-Mashāʻir] "ثم النبات من صفوها ثم الحيوان ثم الانسان فاذا استكمل بالعلم والعمل والكمال بلغ درجة العقل الفعال فيه وقف تركيب الخير والجود واتصل اوله آخر درجات الوجود" ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "قاعدة في الحقيقة الالهية التي اظهرت الجنة ... ولها مظاهر كلية وجزئية هي طبقات جهنم ... شجرة الزقوم طعام الاثيم طلعها كأنه رؤوس الشياطين"Incipit: [Risālat al-Mashāʻir] "هذه هي الرسالة المعروفة بالمشاعر للحكيم الكامل ... مولانا صدر الملة والدين محمد الشيرازي نور الله مرقده ... نحمد الله ونستعين بقوته التي اقام بها ملكوت الارض والسماء وبكلمته الغراء التي انشأ بها نشأتي الاولي والاخرة البيضاء على تهذيب القوى الكاملة القابلة للاستكمال ...وبعد فيقول اقل الخلائق قدرا وجرما واكثرهم خطئا وجرما محمد المشتهر بصدر الدين يقول ايها الاخوان السالكون الى الله بنور العرفان ..." ; [al-ʻArshīyah] "الحمد لله الذي جعلنا ممن شرح صدره للاسلام فهو على نور من ربه ... وبعد فيقول العبد الذليل المحتاج الى عفو ربه الجليل المدعو بصدر الدين ... هذه رسالة اذكر فيها طائفة من المسائل الربوبية ..."Title supplied by cataloguer from inscription on 'title page' (p.1) and heading at opening of second work (p.49).Ms. codex.2. p.49-p.100 : Hādhihi hiya al-Risālah al-mawsūmah bi-al-ʻArshīyah / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.1. p.1-p.49 : Risālat al-Mashāʻir / Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī.MacEoin, D. "Mullā Ṣadrā S̲H̲īrāzīṢadr al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm Ḳawāmī S̲h̲īrāzī." In EI2,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful copy of two works by the renowned Ṣafavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d.1641), first Kitāb al-Mashāʻir, on ontology, followed by al-Ḥikmah al-ʻarshīyah, the popular work on knowledge of God and eschatology, apparently incomplete.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 7946" ; UM Library inscription on p.3 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-13-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil on final leaf (p.100) "231 / 53" ; many marginal glosses and notabilia (side-heads)