Collation: Paper ; fol. 108 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23-44 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; watermarks (unidentified circular mark; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
Incipit: [الحوراء] ... عن زلتى واللئم الذى لا يميز بين ظنين -- [Sufi terminology] بسم ... في الاهتدى الى الصراط المستقيم -- [رسالة للمولى جلال] بسم ... اقول ان افعال العباد دائرة بحسب الاحتمال العقل -- [رسالة ... الايس والايس] بسم ... المتوحد بااوجوب ... وبعد فهذه رسالة مرتبة في تحقيق معنى الليس والايس -- [شرا الطائية] بسم ... يقول الشيخ الحمدانى والعالم الربانى -- [عجالة في امور] بسم ... سبحان من احب ان يعرف مختلف الخلايق -- [عجالة] بسم ... حق حمده والصلوة على محمد ... اما بعد فهذه عجالة تتضمن التعريف بکيفيته التوجه -- [نعمة الذريعة] بسم ... وبعد فهذه ابحاث ... سميتها نعمة الذريعة -- [تسفيه الغبى] بسم ... وبعد فقد ذيلت ما علقته على كتاب الفصوص بما ذكرته اجوبة لفتوى السيوطى -- [حيوة القلوب] ... اعلم ان ضلاله مذهب المتصوفه -- [رسالة في تعريف الولى] بسم ... ارسل رسوله بالهدى ودين الحق -- [رسالة في تعريف الزندقة] بسم ... والصلوه على نبيه محمد واله لجمعين اعلم ان الزندقة المطلقة معنى ان بنكر اصل المعاد -- [رسالة في تصحيح افظ] الحمد لله ولى التوفيق ... وبعد فهذه رسالة معموله في تصحيح لفظ الزنديق -- [نوابغ الكلم] بسم ... من النعم السوابغ الهام هذه الكلم النوابغ
Incipit (continued): -- [رسالة لمذهب] بسم ... هذه رسالة نافذة لمذهب الحكماء الربانية والعلماء اللدنية والصوفية -- [قصة تميم] بسم ... حدثنا الشيخ ابو الفرج ... ابن منية ... عن ... ابن عوفي -- [من قصيدة روحية] حتى إذا اتصلت بهاء هبوطها * عن ميم مركزها بذات الاجرع -- [كتاب اطواق] بسم ... اللهم انا نحمدك على ما اسبلت علينا من جلابيب كرمك -- [بيان معنى] بسم ... فهذه بيان معانى النفس والروح -- [رسالة في نفس الناطق] بسم ... اعلم ان العلماء اختلفوا في ان .. الانسان اى النفس الناطقه -- [رسالة في بيان تلوين] بسم ... الذى انزل الكتاب تبينا وجعل الخطاب الوانا والصلوة على محمد اولى من نطق الصواب -- [رسالة في التبعيضية] بسم ... اعلم ان البعضية -- [رسالة في العوسعات] بسم ... اعلم ان في لسان العرب توسعات -- [رسالة في التوسع] بسم ... اعلم ان التوسع شايع في لغة العرب -- [رسالة في المجاز] اعلم ان الافظ قد يوضع لمعنى مفيد-- [رسالة في دفع] بسم ... الحمد لله الذى تولى السرار ووقف على الخماير -- [رسالة في تحقيق وضع كاد] بسم ... وبعد فهذه رسالة في تحقيق وضع كاد -- [من حاشية تفسير الفاتحة] قال فصلا عن ان يعبد اقول انكر ابو حيان -- [فيما يتعلق بالتضمين] والايمان افعال من الامن
Binding note
Portion of the brown-leather spine only remnant of the cover.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Fārisī.
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Ownership signatures and lines of poetry]
2. fol. 1b: [Table of contents]
3. fol. 2a-10b: [al-Ḥawrāʼ] A commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī on his own treatise on Sufism entitled al-Zawrāʼ.
4. fol. 11a-17b: [Sufi terminology] An anonymous treatise on the definitions of ambiguous Ṣūfī terms and expressions. Written mid-Rabīʻ al-Akhir 985 (fol. 17b)
5. fol. 18a-20a: Risālah lil-Mawlā Jalāl al-Dawwānī. Risālah fī afʻāl al-ʻabd, a work on freewill and predestination by al-Dawwānī.
6. fol. 20b-22a: Risālah fī taḥqīq maʻná al-lays wa-al-ays. Treatise on the words ays and lays as denoting existence and non-existence.
7. fol. 22b: [Extracts]
8. fol. 24a-27b: [Sharḥ al-Ṭāʻīyah al-kubrā] A commentary by Sharaf al-Dīn Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī, 751 [1350] on Naẓm al-durr, an ode rhyming in tāʼ on Ṣūfism by Ibn al-Fāriḍ, 632 [1235].
10. fol. 28b-30a: ʻUjālah. Short treatise on worship by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī called Tawajjuh al-atamm.
11. fol. 30b-34b: Niʻmat al-dharīʻah fī nuṣrat al-sharīʻah. A refutation by Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥalabī, 956 [1549], of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam by Ibn ʻArabī, 638 [1240]. Followed by 6 lines of poetry.
12. fol. 35a-36a: Tasfīh al-ghabī fī Tanzīh Ibn al-ʻArabī, reply by the same Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī to al-Suyūṭī, 911 [1505] against the latter's defense of Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam of Ibn ʻArabī.
13. fol. 36b-39b: Ḥayāt al-qulūb fī dhamm madhhab al-mutaṣawwifah al-wujūdīyah al-malāḥidah. Section 38 of a work against Ṣūfism by Jamāl al-Dīn al-Nasafī.
14. fol. 40a-44b: [Risālah fī taʻrīf al-walī] A treatise discussing the walī.
16. fol. 47b-48b: Risālah fī taṣḥīḥ lafẓ al-zindīq / li-Ibn Kamāl Bāshā. A work determining the etymology, pronunciation and meaning of the word zindīq.
17. fol. 49b-52a: [Nawābigh al-kalim wa-badāʼiʻ al-ḥikam] A collection of proverbs by al-Zamakhsharī, 538 [1144].
18. fol. 52b: Risālah li-madhhab al-ḥukamāʼ al-rabbānīyah wa-al-ʻulamāʼ al-ladunīyah wa-al-Ṣūfīyah. Incomplete at end. Possibly a selection from al-Makhlūqāt. In Persian.
19. fol. 53a: Hādhihi Qiṣṣat Tamīm al-Dārī ibn Ḥabīb al-Anṭārī.
20. fol. 57b: Min al-Qaṣīdah al-rūḥīyah li-Shaykh Ibn Sīnā. Commentary on a few lines of Ibn Sīnā's poetry.
21. fol. 58b-76a: Kitāb Aṭwāq al-dhahab / li-Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Khuwayy. A collection of moral and religious precepts. Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 342/3 gives the title as Aṭbāq al-dhahab and attributes it to ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh, known as Shaqrūh al-Iṣbahānī, 600 [1203/4]. For detailed discussion of authorship see Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1003.
22. fol. 76b-77b: [Extracts] Quotes from Bahnāwī? and Kamāl Pāshā and from sources Maṣūn and al-Talwīḥ.
23. fol. 78a: Bayān maʻānī al-nafs wa-al-rūḥ wa-al-qalb wa-al-ʻaql. A work on the connotations of rūḥ, qalb, and ʻaql by Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, 940 [1533/4], who derived his work from Rubʻ al-muhlikāt (the section on the destructive matters of life) of Iḥyāʼ ʻulūm al-dīn. The work is also known as al-Risālah al-ṭūrīyah.
24 fol. 78b-79a: [Two short sections on spiritual and physical development?]
25. fol. 79b-81b: [Risālah fī al-nafs al-nāṭiqah] A philosophical discussion of the essence of man. This is followed by selections on the same subject from the works of al-Ghazzālī.
26 fol. 82a-83a: [Extracts on the essence of man] Extracts from al-Risālah al-Ladunīyah and Hawāshī al-Qurʼān[?] by al-Ghazzālī, Hawāshī al-Bayḍāwī by Ibn al-Majīd, and from Shaykh [?]
27. fol. 83b-85b: [Extracts on etymology and grammar] Selections from ʻUnqūd al-zawāhir by ʻAlī al-Qūshji, 879 [1474/5], Sharḥ al-Maqāṣid, Risālah al-maʻmūlah fī bayān maʻná al-ḥarf by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, Muṭawwal, Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, Talwīḥ and Ḥasan Ṣalbī[?]
28. fol. 86a-89a: Risālah fī bayān talwīn al-khiṭāb wa-tafṣīl shuʻabih. A grammatical treatise discussing al-iltifāt (the sudden shift in speech from one person to another in a sentence).
29. fol. 89a-89b: [Risālah fī al-tabʻīḍīyah]
30. fol. 89b-90b: [Extracts] Selections from Ḥasan Ṭībī from al-Muṭawwal, Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, and Bahāʼ al-Dīn.
31. fol. 90b-92a: [Risālah fī al-tawassuʻāt] A grammatical treatise discussing al-tawassuʻ (the use of one part of speech for another).
32. fol. 92a-93a: [Risālah fī al-tawassuʻ]
33, fol. 93a-94b: [Miscellany] Selection from Kamāl Pāshāʹzādah on al-taḍmīr, unidentified text, selections from Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf by Jurjānī.
34. fol. 95a-95b: [Risālah fī al-majāz] A treatise on metaphors.
35. fol. 96a-98a: Risālah fī dafʻ mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-ḍamāʼir min al-awhām. A treatise on the correct use of the pronoun.
36. fol. 98b-100a: Risālah fī taḥqīq waḍʻ kāda. A short discussion of kāda and its usage.
37. fol. 100b-102a: [Commentary on al-Risālah al-ʻAḍudīyah] Short extract on Ījī's work on dialectics followed by short commentary by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf, and a longer commentary by Mullā Ḥanafī.
38. fol. 103a-104a: Min Ḥāshiyat tafsīr al-Fātiḥah / Kamāl Pāsāʹzādah. Selections from a gloss on a commentary on al-Fātiḥah
39. 104b-105a: Fīmā yataʻallaqu bi-al-taḍmīn min Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf / lil-Sharīf. A quotation from Ḥāshiyat al-Kashshāf, a gloss by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, 816 [1413] on al-Kashshāf, a commentary on the Qurʼan by al-Zamakhsharī, 538 [1144].
40. fol. 106b-109a: [Extracts and poetry] Tradition about Ibn ʻAbbās; excerpts from al-Bayḍāwī and others.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2005.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 87; III, p. 544; III, p. 372; IV, p. 429; VI, p. 384.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 3225; 7341; 7729; 8673.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 437.
Risālah fī dafʻ mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-ḍamāʼir min al-awhām.
رسالة في دفع ما يتعلق بالضمائر من الاوهام.
Risālah fī taḥqīq waḍʻ kāda.
رسالة في تحقيق وضع كاد.
OCLC
1340425202
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