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Daiber I Ms. 46

184 folios; 18×11 cm; 14-32 lines; naskhi (different hands). The paper of fol.71r and 75v has the Russian mark Kevsko fabriki nr.4. Some folios are loose. Original leather binding. Copied 28 Rajab 1301/24.5.1883 (fol.169r; 175v) by Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan al-Hasani al-Khorasani (s. fol.175v and 22r) who according to a note on fol.22r bequeathed the text 22v-106r together with other books to his descendants.

IIIF Collection

Contents

  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [1251] fol. 3r

    A prayer. The margin and part of fol. 2v contain an enumeration of magical letters and numbers in Persian.

  3. [3] [1252] fol. 3v - 5r

    al-Risala al-muntakhaba fi ma'alim haqiqat al-nafs wa-ma yattasilu bi-dhalika الرسالة المنتخبة في معالم حقيقة النفس وما يتصل بذلك

    This philosophical treatise of Ibn Sina (died 428/1037) on the soul is incomplete at the end. The text ends in the edition of A. NADER (al-Nafs al-bashariya inda Ibn Sina النفس البشرية عند ابن سينا , Beirut 1968, p.29-38) on p.34, ult. In this edition it has the title Risala fi ma'rifat al-nafs al-natiqa wa-ahwaliha رسالة في معرفة النفس الناطقة وأحوالها (also in the edition of AHMAD FU'AD AL-AHWANI أحمد فؤاد الأهواني ; Ahwal al-nafs أحوال النفس , Cairo 1371/1952, p.181-192). - The text is also preserved in the ms. Maktabat al-Awqaf (Baghdad) 13837/25 (without author and title); it is different from the works with the following titles 1) Risala fi al-nafs رسالة في النفس which is mentioned GAL I 455 nr. 29 and S I 818 nr. 29; a further ms. is Wien 2301 (Mixt.866, 6), fol. 66v-71r. 2) Risala fi quwa al-nafs = Mabhath an al-quwa al-nafsaniya رسالة في قوى النفس = مبحث عن القوى النفسانية (Hadiya lil-amir Nuh Ibn Mansur al-Samani هدية للأمير نوح بن منصور الساماني which is mentioned with mss. and editions in GAL I 455 nr. 30 and S I 818 nr. 30; the ms. Berlin 5341 (no title; called in AHLWARDT Risala fi quwa al-nafs = GAL I 455 nr. 30) is different. Further editions see LANDAUER in Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft 29, 1876, p.339-372 and A.F. AL-AHWANI, Ahwal al-nafs, Cairo 1371/1952, p.143-178. 3) Risala fi (bayan) al-nafs al-natiqa wa-ahwaliha رسالة في (بيان) النفس الناطقة وأحوالها which is mentioned in GAL I 455 nr. 31 and S I 818 nr. 31. 4) Risala fi Ahwal al-nafs رسالة في أحوال النفس which is mentioned in GAL I 455 nr. 32 and S I 818 nr. 32; editions A.F. AL-AHWANI, Ahwal al-nafs, Cairo 1371/1952, p.45-142, also with the title Risala fi al-nafs wa-baqa'iha wa-ma'adiha رسالة في النفس وبقائها ومعادها ; the same title can be found in the edition of HILMI ZIYA ÜLKEN, Ibn Sina Risaleleri II, Istanbul 1953 (= Istanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi yayinlarindan 552), p.109-154. The text of our ms. is, as a comparison with the catalogues can prove, identical with the Risala fi ilm al-nafs رسالة في علم النفس which is mentioned in GAL I 455 nr. 36 (BROCKELMANN has wrongly mentioned S. LANDAUER as editor of the text). For further information about Ibn-Sina-mss. dealing with the soul and sometimes wrongly classified by BROCKELMANN (GAL) cf. G.C. ANAWATI, Essai de bibliographie Avicennienne, Le Caire 1950, Index p.368 s.v. "al-nafs".

  4. [4] [1253] fol. 7v - 10v

    (al-)Kawakib al-durriya, perhaps al-Kawakib al-durriya bi-usul al-jafriya الكواكب الدرية = الكواكب الدرية بأصول الجفرية

    (mentioned in GAL S II 1042 nr. 47 among authors who cannot be identified; further mss. see R. MACH, Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (Yahuda section) in the Garrett collection, Princeton University Library Princeton, N.J. 1977, nr. 5147 (with a preface which is missing in our ms.). The text of our ms. conists of 8 chapters and deals with the magic of letters.

  5. [5] [1254] fol. 22v - 106r

    Najat al-ibad fi yawm al-ma'ad نجاة العباد في يوم المعاد

    A devotional work written by a not identifiable Shi'ite from Khorasan. According to the colophon the text was finished 4 Rajab 1298/8.5.1881. Author and title are neither in BROCKELMANN (GAL) nor in KAHHALE.

  6. [6] [1255] fol. 106v - 107r

    Aja'ib al-makhluqat عجائب المخلوقات

    An excerpt. On the author (died 682/1283) and the text see GAL I 481 and S I 882.

  7. [7] [1256] fol. 107v - 109v

    A fragment of a theological work (text with commentary), in Persian.

  8. [8] [1257] fol. 110v - 131r

    An anonymous work about rhetoric (balagha بلاغة ). The text cites Safi al-Din al-Hilli صفي الدين الحلي (died 749/1349 cf. GAL S II 199) but is written much later fol. 130v-2 mentions as a formula "Shaykh al-Islam lil-dawla al-Uthmaniya wa-al-mufti bi-al-Qustantiniya al-mahmiya شيخ الإسلام للدولة العثمانية والمفتي بالقسطنطينية المحمية ". The author seems to be an Iranian; he mentions the judge (al-qadi القاضي , once also written al-qadi! القادي ) of Tabaristan, Muhammad Bek محمد بك (125r) and a man called Muhammad Zaki al-Derbendi محمد زكي الدربندي (125r).

  9. [9] [1258] fol. 131v - 132v

    Poems ascribed to. On the poems ascribed to Yazid Ibn Mu'awiya cf. F. SEZGIN, GAS II, Leiden 1975, p.316f. - Our text is not identical with the printed versions and not in PAUL SCHWARZ, Escorial-Studien I, Stuttgart 1922, p.56ff.

  10. [10] [1259] fol. 133v

    Bihar al-anwar بحار الأنوار

    A fragment of, (book 9). On this Shiite encyclopaedia by al-Majlisi (died 1110/1700) cf. GAL S II 573 nr. 4.

  11. [11] [1260] fol. 134r - 164r

    al-Tibyan fi suwar al-qur'an التبيان في سور القرآن

    An anonymous explanation of the names of Suras and Koranic expressions, composed by the author during Muharram 1302/October 1884. The author cites al-Suyuti السيوطي (cf. GAL II 143ff.; S II 178ff.) and Shiite commentaries on the Koran (e.g. al-Tabarsi الطبرسي , Majma' al-bayan li-ulum al-qur'an مجمع البيان لعلوم القرآن , on which cf. GAL S I 708).

  12. [12] [1261] fol. 165r - 167v

    Fragments and notes, containing prayers and theological questions.

  13. [13] [1262] fol. 167v - 169r

    Bur' al-sa'a برء الساعة

    On the author (died 313/925) and this medical treatise see F. SEZGIN, GAS III (Leiden 1970) 284f. and M. ULLMANN, Die Medizin im Islam, Leiden/Köln 1970, p.127. - A second copy with Persian translation is in our ms. on fol. 176r-182r.

  14. [14] [1263] fol. 169v - 175v

    Kitab li-Abi Muhammad al-Hasan Ibn Makhlad fima amaluhu fi tadbir badanihi fi safarihi ila al-hajj كتاب لأبي محمد الحسن بن مخلد فيما عمله في تدبير بدنه في سفره إلى الحج

    On the author (born about 205/820) and this still unedited treatise on the treatment of diseases during the pilgrimage (hajj حج ) cf. F. SEZGIN, GAS III (Leiden 1970) 271; M. ULLMANN, Die Medizin (see preceding section) p.127.

  15. [15] [1264] fol. 176r - 182r

    Bur' al-sa'a برء الساعة

    Arabic text with Persian commentary by Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan al-Husayni (ms. al-Hasani) al-Khorasani محمد بن الحسن الحسيني (المخطوطة الحسنى) الخرساني . A second copy of the Arabic text is fol. 167v-169r.

  16. [16] [1265] fol. 182v - 183v

    Some notes and prayers.

  17. [17]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.