Details

Subject(s)

• Classification of sciences—Islamic empire—13th century [Browse]
• Classification of sciences—Islamic empire—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Encyclopedia discussing the subject matter of each science, its aims and usefulness, and enumerating some books pertaining to that science.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single red line. European paper. The headings are repeated in red on the margins (often inverted). catchword on the verso of each leaf. Short inscription on fol. 1a.
• Spine label (vertical), with inscription reading: "86" (in Arabic and Western numerals).
• Origin: Copied by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī at the end of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 968 [Dec. 1560] (colophon, fol. 44b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان وفضّله على سائر الحيوان بالنطق والبيان والصلوة على رسوله محمد ... وبعد فان بنا حاجة الى تكميل نفوسنا البشرية في قواها النظرية والعلمية اذ كان ذلك هو الوسيلة الى السعادة الابدية ولما كان هذا انما يتم بالعلم بحقائق الاشيآء على ما هي عليه ليعتقد الحق وبفعل الخير وجب علينا ان نعلم العلم المتكفل بتحقيق الحقائق
• Explicit: ان ينفعل هو كون الشىء متأثرا عن غيره كالانقطاع وهذه المقولات شاملة لجميع الموجودات الممكنة وليكن هذا آخر الكلام في هذه الرسالة والله اعلم

Binding note

Quarter bound (paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers; brown leather spine and edges). Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Erased inscriptions, probably ownership statements, on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1129-C

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

168573246

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