al-Falsafah al-dhātīyah, [193-?].

Careful though acephalous and incomplete copy of Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī’s commentary on Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, opening in the latter part of al-Aṣl al-rābiʻ and concluding in the opening part of the Khātimah.Origin: Lacks dated colophon though copied for James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974) likely in Egypt in the late 1930s.Accompanying materials: "a. Slip of paper: 7979; b. Slip of paper: 13565" - from handlist prepared by R. Dougherty, 1993.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 87Binding: Boards covered in dark green cloth with dark green leather over spine (quarter binding) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in wove paper printed with a floral vegetal pattern in green ; spine gold-stamped with title and decorative accents over raised bands "الفلسفة الذاتية الفرغاني | J.H.D." ; overall in fairly good condition.Support: Lined / ruled wove paper.Decoration: Section headings rubricated ; diagram on p.86Script: Naskh ; clear hand in a medium line ; mainly serifless with slight effect of tilt to the left and of words descending to baseline, curvilinear descenders, open and closed counters, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots.Layout: Written in 28-34 lines per page.Collation: Pagination in pencil (later blue pencil), Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "اصلا ومنشأ لجميع الصور الانسانية التخطيطية كما كان معنى محمد ص وحقيقته التي هي حقيقة الحقائق منشأ"Incipit: "وان كانت راجعة الى اصول حاصرة كالاسماء الذاتية التي هي مفاتيح الغيب التي كلياتها الحضرات الخمس كما مر ..."Title from inscription in pencil on incipit page (p.1).Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Careful though acephalous and incomplete copy of Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah al-Fanārī’s commentary on Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s (d.1274) chief philosophical work Miftāḥ ghayb al-jamʻ wa-al-wujūd, opening in the latter part of al-Aṣl al-rābiʻ and concluding in the opening part of the Khātimah.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in the Fall of 1950.On upper pastedown, label with ex libris of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), stamped with inventory number, "Ex Libris | J. Heyworth-Dunne | D. Lit. (London) | No 7979" ; UM Library inscription at opening on p.1 "Dunning | Heyworth-Dunne | 6-11-51 | 71955" ; possible former inventory mark in pencil at opening on p.1 "231 / 53" ; marginal glosses