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Title

Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah. Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah.
شرح هداية الحكمة. رسالة في علم الهيئة

Authors

• Ibn al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1434 or 1435
  ابن الشريف الجرجاني، محمد بن علي،
• Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1228-1302
  ابن دقيق العيد، محمد بن علي،
• Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, -1265
  اثير الدين الابهري، المفضل بن عمر،
• Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, -1265
  اثير الدين الابهري، المفضل بن عمر،

Other related names

• Saʻīrī, ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad, active 1495, scribe
  سعيري، عمر بن محمد،
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 300
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14258981
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112159055
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_300.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258981

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1495

Summary

Composite manuscript of works related to al-Mufaḍḍal al-Abharī. The first is an abridgment and commentary on his philosophical work Hidāyat al-ḥikmah and the second is his astronomical treatise Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah. If a third work was included, as the table of contents written on the first flyleaf suggests, it is no longer present. A short poem by Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd al-Qushayrī is copied onto a blank page between the two works.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title for works from added title page to each work (f. 1r, 35r).
   
• Owner's notes and one effaced stamp (flyleaf 1 recto at the front, f. 1r, 35r)
   

Extent

49 pages : 180 x 120 (130 x 90) mm, bound to 180 x 135 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in modern cardboard with flap; printed red and blue leaf and fruit patterned sides; plain light blue paper pastedowns; red leather spine and flap hinge.

Layout

22 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Islamic philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Compilation manuscripts
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Full covers
• Flap bindings (Binding)
• Diagrams
• Notes (documents)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah
• fol. 34v — Poem by Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd al-Qushayrī
• fol. 35v — Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah

Decorations

• Flap — Table of contents
• Flap — Notations
• fol. 1r — Effaced stamp
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 35r — Notations
• fol. 36r — Diagram
• fol. 37r — Diagram
• fol. 37v — Diagram
• fol. 41r — Diagram
• fol. 41v — Diagram
• fol. 42r — Diagram
• fol. 42v — Diagram
• fol. 44v — Diagram
• fol. 45r — Diagram
• fol. 49v — Notations
• Flap — Table of contents
• Flap — Notations