Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah. Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah

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Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002,49 pages: 180 x 120 (130 x 90) mm, bound to 180 x 135 mm,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,Manuscript codex,Title for works from added title page to each work (f. 1r, 35r),1. f. 1v-34r: Sharḥ Hidāyat al-ḥikmah / Muḥammad ibn Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Jurjānī -- 2. f. 34v: [Poem] / Ibn Daqīq al-ʻĪd al-Qushayri -- 3. 35r-49r: Risālah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah / al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Abharī,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 st