Physical description: 21 lines per page; written in shikastah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Rubrication and catchwords; some marginal notes. Insert between fol. 11-12. Ms. foliated incorrectly in Arabic script and correctly in Western script; record follows Western numbering. In text 1, each faṣṣ is noted in the upper left corner of the recto. Some foxing and smudging; fol. 70 detached. In excellent condition.
Origin: Text 1 completed by ʻAbd al-Ghānī and Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥillī in Dār al-Khilāfah Ṭihrān in Shawwāl 1255 H [December 1839 or January 1840] (fol. 68a).
Incipit (text 1): الحمد لله الذي جعل صفايح قلوب ذوي الهمم قابلة لنقش فصوص الهكم
Incipit (text 2): الحمد لله الذي تجلى بذاته لقلوب العارفين ليروا آثار جلاله في كل شىء
Binding note
Full orange-brown leather with blind-tooled fillets.
Language note
Persian.
Contents
1. fol. 1b-68a: Naqd al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ / [Jāmī]. Persian commentary on Ibn al-ʻArabī's abridgment of his Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam.
2. fol. 68b-71b: [Sharḥ ḥadīth al-ḥaqīqah]. Anonymous commentary on the ḥadīth in which Kumayl ibn Ziyād asks ʻAlī ibn Ṭālib about the nature of reality.
Provenance
On fol. 1a, owner's note and seal of Raḥmān Allāh al-Mūsavī dated 7 Jumādá I 1319 H [22 August 1901], and owner's note of Mahdī ibn Raḥmān Allāh al-Mūsavī dated Jumādá I 1330 H [April-May 1912], who states that he inherited this ms. from his father. On fol. 1b, effaced note and seal.
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