الذخر.

[al-Dhukhr].

Author
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[15th century?]
Description
176 leaves : paper ; 177 x 127 (120-135 x 90) mm bound to 179 x 132 mm.

Details

Subject(s)
Donor
Related name
Rare books genre
Summary note
A work stating the conflicting views of philosophers as to the attributes of God. It was composed at the request of the Ottoman Sultan Muḥammad II (855-886/1451-1481). The author follows the same outline of Tahāfut al-falāsifah, the famous work on the same subject by al-Ghazzālī.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • A few marginal notes. Ḥājjī Khalīfah refers to the work under the name al-Dhakhīrah.
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 176 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 19-21 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; some paper tinted yellow ; MS in fair condition, mended.
  • Origin: Probably from the latter part of the XVth century. Very rare.
  • Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عونك يا لطيف سبحانك سبحانك اللهم يا متفردا بالازلية والقدم ... اما بعد فان جملة الآراء تطابقت وجلة العقلاء ...
  • Colophon: ولنختم الکتاب حامدين لله تعالى ملهم الصواب آملين منه جزيل الجزاء ونبيل الثواب ومصلين على سيد من اوحي بخطاب واوتي الکتاب وعلى آله واصحابه خيرآل واصحاب وعلى اتباعه ما تعاقب الجديدان في الذهاب والاياب ومسلمين عليه وعليهم تسليما کثيراً کثيراً
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped and -tooled mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Endbands.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Fārisī.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1498.
  • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 475/6.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Dhakhīrah.
OCLC
1340425277
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