Forty-eight texts on philosophy, by Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), Mīr Dāmād (d. 1630), Davvānī (d. 1501), Bābā Afẓal (d. c. 1213), Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr (d. 1541), and others

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Title:: Forty-eight texts on philosophy, by Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), Mīr Dāmād (d. 1630), Davvānī (d. 1501), Bābā Afẓal (d. c. 1213), Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr (d. 1541), and others

Scribe and production place:: Muḥammad Ja`far ibn `Ināyatullāh al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī
Iran

Production date:: 1655-1673 (1066-1083H)

Dimensions:: 312 mm x 174 mm x 34 mm (height x width x depth)

Material:: Paper (material) Ink (material) Gold

Language:: Persian (language) Arabic (language)

Script type:: Nasta'liq script Naskh script

Collection:: Persian collection

Document type:: Manuscript

Object name:: Codex

Description:: Forty-eight texts on philosophy, by Ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), Mīr Dāmād (d. 1630), Davvānī (d. 1501), Bābā Afẓal (d. c. 1213), Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr (d. 1541), and others. Codex, ink and gold on paper, 330 folios, Persian and Arabic text in nasta`liq and naskh scripts, with gold headings (sarlawh), (1: fols. 1v-7v) al-Alvāḥ al-`Imādiyya, by Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-Futūḥ Aḥmad ibn Ḥubaysh ibn Amīrak al-Suhravardī al-Maqtūl (d. 1191), (2: fols. 7v-68v) 17 works on philosophy by Abū `Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn `Abdullāh ibn Sīnā (d. 1037), (3: fols. 68v-101v) Persian text on metaphysics (completed 856H, 1452), (4: fols. 102v-112r) Arabic text on Shī`a Islam, by Muḥammad Bāqir ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī, Mīr Dāmād (1562-1630), (5: fols. 135v-148r) shorter texts by different authors including Jalāl al-Dīn Davvānī (d. 1501) and Khwāja Ṣā’in al-Dīn Turka, (6: fols. 157v-170r) Javāhir al-Kalām, by `Adud al-Dīn `Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī al-Shīrāzī (d. 1355), (7: fols. 177v-184v) Risāla al-Zawrā’, with commentary, by Davvānī, (8: fols. 192v-198r) Rah-anjāmnāma, by Afẓal al-Dīn Muḥammad Maraghī Kāshānī, by Bābā Afẓal (d. c. 1213), (9: fols. 198v-221r) al-Minhāj al-mubīn, by Bābā Afẓal, (10: fols. 222v-234r) Zawra, Zoroastrian text with commentary by Āzarpazhūh, (11: fols. 234v-238r) Kitāb-i Tuffāḥa, by Bābā Afẓal, version of De Pomo attributed to Aristotle, (12: fols. 238v-245v) Persian summary of The Categories, by Aristotle; (13: fols. 246v-251r) Jām-i Gītīnāma, attributed Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr (d. 1541-1542), (14: fols. 251v-260r) Shish Bāb, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī, (d. 1274), (15: fols. 263v-266v) Sharḥ-i Ḥawrā’iyya, commentary on quatrain attributed to Abū Sa`īd ibn Abī al-Khayr (d. 1048-1049), (16: fols. 266v-277v) Madārij al-Kamāl, by Bābā Afẓal, (17: fols. 277v-294r) text on trades and professions, attributed Amīr Abū al-Qāsim al-Fandarīqī, (18: fols. 294v-327v) Mir’āt al-muḥaqqiqīn, by Maḥmūd Shabistarī (d. c. 1320), parts 1-3 copied by Muḥammad Ja`far ibn `Ināyatullāh al-Kātib al-Shīrāzī, parts 4-18 unsigned, Iran, parts 1-3 dated Muharram 1066H, November 1655, parts 4-13 dated 1083H, 1672-1673, parts 14-18 dated 8 Ramadan 1082H, 8 January 1672.

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