Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-uṣūl مختصر في علم الأصول Anonymous

Content

An anonymous compendium of questions and answers concerning metaphysics (علم الأصول, lit. ‘the science of principles’). The text, as preserved here, is divided into four chapters (أبواب):

• الباب الأول في المباحث المتعلقة بالعلم والنظر (‘Chapter 1: Studies related to knowledge and theory’; ff. 82v-85v);
• الباب الثاني في أحكام المعلومات (‘Chapter 2: The accuracy of facts’; ff. 85v-91v);
• الباب ج في بيان العلم بالصانع (‘Chapter 3: Explaining knowledge by means of the Maker’; ff. 91v-100r);
• الباب د في صفة القدرة والعلم وغيرهما (‘Chapter 4: Descriptions of ability, knowledge and others’; ff. 100r-104r, defective at end).

Begins (f. 82r, lines 4-6 and 82v, lines 6-7):

الحمد لله فالق الأصباح وخالق الأرواح فاطر

العقول والحواس ومبدع الأنواع والأجناس

لا بداية لقدمه ولا غاية لكرمه ولا أمد لسلطانه

...

... أما بعد فهذا

مختصر في علم الأصول وهو مرتب على أبواب

Ends (f. 104r, lines 12-15):

... وأما ب

فألأنا إذا سمعنا الصوت علمنا جهته وذلك على آناء

أدركنا الصوت في الخارج ولأنا نسمع كلام الإنسان

من وراء الجراء ولو كنا لا نسمع الكلام إلا عند وصوله

Extent and format

ff. 82r-104v

It is part of

Medical compendium

370 images

Ref: Arundel Or 10

Physical characteristics

Material: Paper

Dimensions: 174 x 124 mm leaf [130 x 94 mm written]

Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil

Ruling:

• Misṭarah; 11 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm (ff. 4v-27v);
• Misṭarah; 15 lines per page; vertical spacing lines per 10 cm (ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r);
• No ruling visible; average 18 lines per page; 16 lines per 10 cm (ff. 105v-108v)

Script: Naskh

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over lining in red

Binding: British Museum binding in brown leather

Condition: minor waterstains, some foxing and light grime from thumbing, some folios torn and repaired (e.g. ff. 10, 11 and 68)

Marginalia: Occasional marginal annotations and corrections

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Arundel Or 10, ff 82r-104v

History of this record

Date(s)

711-712 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Context of creation

Aleppo

Provenance

See note on f. 28r of one Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalīl (?) ibn al-Ḥaṣūn (?) who inspected and copied the texts on ff. 28v-104r and 109r-174r on 17 Jumādá II 829/26 April 1426.

Front paper i verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. contains an anonymous bookplate with motto ‘NULLIUS IN VERBA’.

Folio 4r contains stamp inscribed ‘Soc. Reg. Lond. ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.

Related material

Subjects

Medicine, Greek and Roman

People & organisations

Hibat Allāh ibn Ṣā'id Ibn al-TilmīdhAvicennaGalen

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