ʻAshrah ashkāl - Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513.
Questions concerning several matters. This treatise comprises also a list of the shaykh of al-Dawwānī and a list of his works. The text is followed on fol. 27b by the beginning of a text on metaphysics.
Masʼalah 1 fī al-ḥadīth wa-uṣūl al-fiqh (fol. 4a) -- Masʼalah 2 min al-fiqh (fol. 5a) -- Masʼalah 3 fī baʻḍ al-khilāfīyāt(?) (fol. 5a) -- Masʼalah 4 min al-ṭibb (fol. 5b) -- Masʼalah 5 min uṣūl al-dīn fī ḥudūth al-ʻālam (fol. 6b) -- Masʼalah 6 min al-tafsīr (fol. 29a) -- Masʼalah 7 min al-handasah (fol. 24b) -- Masʼalah 8 min al-hayʼah(?) (fol. 25a) -- Masʼalah 9 min al-manṭiq (fol. 25a) -- Masʼalah 10 min al-arithmāṭīqī (fol. 25a).
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
19 lines per page. Written in thick medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "... 128". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "887 Ḥāʼ".
Seal of al-Sayyid Muslim Ghazālī, dated 1239 H. [1823] on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Paper over paper pasteboards for lower and upper covers. Red paper pastedown and fly-leaf.
Mach, R. Yahuda
Keywords: Dawwānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad, -- 1426 or 1427-1512 or 1513 -- Bibliography -- Early works to 1800.; Islam -- Doctrines -- History -- 15th century -- Sources; Islamic philosophy -- History -- 15th century -- Sources; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton