Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah. Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah
Contributors: Ibn al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1434 or 1435; Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1228-1302; Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, -1265; Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, -1265; Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1495
Language: ara
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Islamic philosophy; Early works to 1800; Arab Astronomy; Arabic Manuscripts
Description: 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).

Layout: 22 long lines.

Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Rubrications in red.

Origin: Copy of the first work completed on 23 Muḥarram 901 (October 1495) by ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Saʻīrī (f. 34r). Second work is undated.

Shelfmark: MS Or 300.

Owner's notes and one effaced stamp (flyleaf 1 recto at the front, f. 1r, 35r).

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Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.

Arabic.

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.

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Table of contents: title: 1. f. 1v-34r: Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah / Muḥammad ibn Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī; title: 2. f. 34v: [Poem] / Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd al-Qushayri; title: 3. 35r-49r: Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah / al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Abharī