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Title:

Compendium of philosophical and scientific texts by and about Avicenna (ابن سينا)

Scope & Content:

Collection of fifty-three short works on various philosophical and scientific topics by and about Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037).

The colophon to text 6 states that the copy was completed in 1182/1768-9 (f. 34v, line 29), which means that the cancelled colophon to text 46, which states that the copy was completed at Akbarābād (Agra) on 18 Ṣafar 1091/10 March 1680 (f. 552r, lines 21-26) is likely to have been copied from its exemplar. A similar example of cancellation of concluding material copied from an exemplar but extraneous to the main body of the text is seen in text 7 (f. 100v, lines 18-25).

The manuscript was won from Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī (أبو طالب الحسيني), who had purchased it at Murshidābād in Rabīʻ II 1208/November-December 1793, by Major William Yule (1764-1839) whose note dated Lucknow, September 1803 claims that he had "staked [his] own mujmōōah (no. 20) against it" (see f. 4r; Yule's majmūʻah 20 is Add. MS 16656, see Cureton and Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens [London: The British Museum, 1846-71], Item 1030, p. 472). The present manuscript is numbered 23 in Yule's collection on the first front flyleaf (f. i-r) and f. 1r.

A table of contents (فهرست) precedes the texts on ff. 2v-3r.

Contents:

(1) al-Jūzjānī (الجوزجاني), Fihrist kutub al-shaykh al-raʼīs (فهرست كتب الشيخ الرئيس, ff. 4v-5r);

(2) Avicenna (ابن سينا), al-Risālah fī aḥwālih (الرسالة في أحواله, ff. 5v-7v);

(3) Avicenna (ابن سينا), al-Risālah fī al-ʻishq (الرسالة في العشق, ff. 8v-13r);

(4) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (رسالة حي بن يقظان, ff. 13v-15v);

(5) Ibn Zaylah (ابن زيلة), Sharḥ risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (رسالة حي بن يقظان, ff. 16v-24v);

(6) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah aḍḥawīyah fī amr al-maʻād (رسالة أضحوية في أمر المعاد, ff. 25v-34v);

(7) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb al-najāh (كتاب النجاة, ff. 35r-100v);

(8) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Tarjamah-i Ishārāt (ترجمۀ إشارات, ff. 101r-140r);

(9) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Taʻlīqāt (تعليقات, ff. 141r-200v);

(10) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [al-Mubāḥathāt] ([المباحثات], ff. 201r-228v);

(11) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat ḥikmat al-mawt (رسالة حكمة الموت, ff. 228v-235v);

(12) Ibn Ṭufayl (ابن طفيل), Risālat Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (رسالة حي بن يقظان, ff. 235v-258r);

(13) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Ḥikmat-i ʻAlāʼī (حكمة علائي, ff. 258v-310r);

(14) al-Jūzjānī (الجوزجاني), Risālah dar ʻilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt (رساله در علم رياضيات, ff. 310v-342v);

(15) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat taqsīm al-ʻulūm (رسالة تقسيم العلوم, ff. 342v-345r);

(16) al-Shahrastānī (الشهرستاني), Ṭarīqat Ibn Sīnā min Kitāb al-milal wa-al-niḥal (طريقة ابن سينا من كتاب الملل والنحل, ff. 346r-368v);

(17) Theophrastus (ثيوفراسط), Risālah fī dhikr asbāb al-raʻd wa-al-barq (رسالة في ذكر أسباب الرعد والبرق, ff. 368v-369v);

(18) Anonymous, [Answer to a question on a Sufi saying] (ff. 369v-370r);

(19) Avicenna (ابن سينا), al-Risālah al-musammāh bi-al-fayḍ al-ilāhī (الرسالة المسماة بالفيض الإلهي, ff. 370v-373r);

(20) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-miʻrājīyah (رسالة المعراجية, ff. 373r-381v);

(21) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Tarjamat risālat al-maʿād (ترجمة رسالة المعاد, ff. 381v-402r);

(22) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Tarjamat risālat al-nafs (ترجمة رسالة النفس, ff. 403v-410r);

(23) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah ilá tilmīdhihi Abī ʻUbayd al-Jūzjānī (رسالة إلى تلميذه أبي عبيد جوزجاني, ff. 410v-411r);

(24) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād (رسالة المبدأ والمعاد, ff. 411v-413v);

(25) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-ḥudūd (رسالة الحدود, ff. 414v-419r);

(26) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (رسالة في علم الأخلاق, ff. 419v-421r);

(27) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Suʼāl ʻan al-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah (سؤال عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره) and Jawābuhu ʻan al-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah (جوابه عن الشيخ الرئيس قدس سره, ff. 421v-422v);

(28) Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī (ابن سهلان الساوي), Sharḥ risālah al-marmūzah al-musammāh bi-risālat al-ṭayr lil-shaykh al-raʼīs (شرح رسالة المرموزة المسماة برسالة الطير للشيخ الرئيس, ff. 424v-435r);

(29) Avicenna (ابن سينا), al-Risālah al-nayrūzīyah (الرسالة النيروزية, ff. 435v-436v);

(30) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah al-marmūzah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs qaddasa sirrah (رسالة المرموزة للشيخ الرئيس قدس سره, ff. 436v-437v);

(31) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-farq bayna al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah wa-al-gharībah (رسالة في الفرق بين الحرارة الغريزية والغريبة, ff. 438r-438v);

(32) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah fī bayān al-ṣūrah al-maʻqūlah al-mukhālifah li-l-ḥaqq tanfasikhu ʻan al-nafs baʻda mufāriqātih (رسالة في بيان الصورة المعقولة المخالفة للحق تنفسخ عن النفس بعد مفارقته, ff. 438v-439v);

(33) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah fī al-nafs (رسالة في النفس, ff. 440v-449r);

(34) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb al-maʻād (كتاب المعاد, ff. 449v-466r);

(35) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-mabdaʼ wa-al-maʻād (رسالة المبدأ والمعاد, ff. 466v-497r);

(36) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-firdaws (رسالة الفردوس, ff. 497v-502r);

(37) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat ajwibat al-masāʼil al-ʻasharah (رسالة أجوبة المسائل العشرة, ff. 502v-504v);

(38) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālat al-fawāʼid fī al-raʼy al-muḥaṣṣal min al-aqdamīn jawhar al-ajrām al-samāwīyah wa-bayān madhhabihum al-muḥaqqaq ʻinda al-shaykh (رسالة الفوائد في الرأي المحصل من الأقدمين جوهر الأجرام السماوية وبيان مذهبهم المحقق عند الشيخ, ff. 504v-508v);

(39) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah fī ḥujaj al-muthbitīn li-l-māḍī mabdaʼan zamānīyan (رسالة في حجج المثبتين للماضي مبداءً زمانيًا, ff. 508v-515v);

(40) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ] ([تفسير سورة الإخلاص], ff. 516v-518r);

(41) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Falaq] ([تفسير سورة الفلق], ff. 518r-519r);

(42) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [Tafsīr Sūrat al-Nās] ([تفسير سورة الناس], ff. 519r-519v);

(43) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Tafsīr Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (تفسير سورة الإخلاص, ff. 519v-520v);

(44) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb katabahu al-shaykh Abī (!) Saʻīd ibn Abū (!) al-Khayr qaddasa sirrahu ilá shaykh al-raʼīs Ibn Sīnā fī maʻná al-ziyārah wa-kayfīyat taʼthīrihā (كتاب كتبه الشيخ أبي (!) سعيد بن أبو (!) الخير قدس سره إلى شيخ الرئيس ابن سينا في معنى الزيارة و كيفية تأثيرها, ff. 520v-521v);

(45) Avicenna (ابن سينا), al-Risālah lil-shaykh al-raʼīs fī asrār al-ṣalwah (الرسالة للشيخ الرئيس في أسرار الصلوة, ff. 521v-523v);

(46) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [al-]Risālah al-manāmīyah (الـ]ـرسالة المنامية], ff. 524v-552r);

(47) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb ḥudūth al-ḥarf (كتاب حدوث الحرف, ff. 556v-559v);

(48) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Khuṭbat al-shaykh al-raʼīs hujjat al-ḥaqq Abī ʻAlī ibn Sīnā qaddasa Allāhu rūḥahu wa-qad awrada fīhā maʻná al-illāhīyāt wa-al-riyāḍīyāt wa-al-ṭabīʻīyāt ʻalá aḥsan ʻibāratin wa-aṣaḥḥahā (خطبة الشيخ الرئيس حجة الحق أبي علي بن سينا قدس الله روحه وقد أورد فيها معنى الإلهيات والرياضيات والطبيعيات على أحسن عبارة وأصحها, ff. 559v-560v);

(49) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Sharḥ kalimāt al-shaykh al-raʼīs raḥimahu Allāh (شرح كلمات الشيخ الرئيس رحمه الله, f. 560v);

(50) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Kitāb al-urjūzah fī al-manṭiq (كتاب الأرجوزة في المنطق, ff. 565v-568r);

(51) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah tashtamilu ʻalá īḍāḥ barāhīn mustanbaṭah min masāʼil ʻawīṣah (رسالة تشتمل على إيضاح براهين مستنبطة من مسائل عويصة, ff. 569v-572r);

(52) Avicenna (ابن سينا), [Aqsām al-ʻulūm al-ʻaqlīyah] ([أقسام العلوم العقلية], ff. 572r-574v);

(53) Avicenna (ابن سينا), Risālah li-l-shaykh al-raʼīs Abī ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd Allāh ilá Abī Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī fī jawāb masāʼil anfadhahā ilayhī (رسالة للشيخ الرئيس أبي علي ابن عبد الله إلى أبي ريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني في جواب مسائل أنفذها إليه, ff. 575v-582v).

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Start Date:

1768

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1769

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1182

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Hijri qamari

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Eastern laid paper

Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm leaf [text frame 176 x 105 mm]

Foliation: Eastern Arabic foliation in black ink (to f. 586r); British Museum foliation in pencil; mid-quire marks (quaternions)

Ruling: No ruling visible in the first half of the manuscript, misṭarah visible from 310r; 30 lines per page; vertical spacing 18 lines per 10 cm

Script: Naskh; multiple scribes, changes of hand at ff. 101v, 141v, 201v, 235v, 343v, 346v, 368v, 403v, 410v, 411v, 414v, 419v, 421v, 424v, 435v, 436v, 440v, 475r, 497v, 508v, 556v, and 565v

Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and overlinings in red

Decoration: Each text in the manuscript has a headpiece (ʿunwān) illuminated in gold, red and blue; beginning with f. 4, all pages are framed in yellow, black and red

Binding: Western case binding in red leather with flap; red leather doublure

Condition: Minor tears to first front flyleaf (f. i) and f. 3

Marginalia: Few by multiple hands, including that of Major William Yule (1764-1839)

Seals: British Museum stamp (ff. 2r, 5r, 8r, 13r, 15r, 25r, 35r, 75r, 101r, 141r, 201r, 228r, 235r, 258r, 310r, 332r, 346r, 369r, 370r, 373r, 381r, 403r, 410r, 414r, 419r, 421r, 424r, 435r, 438r, 440r, 449r, 466r, 497r, 502r, 504r, 508r, 515r, 516r, 578r, 524r, 556r, 559r, 565r, 569r and 582v)

Custodial History:

Major William Yule (1764-1839): his bookplate with date September 1805 (recto of first front flyleaf [f. i-r]);
Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī (أبو طالب الحسيني): his inscription recording his purchase of the manuscript at Murshidʾābād while returning from Kolkata to Lucknow in Rabīʿ II 1208/November-December 1793 (f. 4r);
Major William Yule (1764-1839): his inscription appended below that of Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī (أبو طالب الحسيني) from whom he records that he won the manuscript at Lucknow in September 1803 (f. 4r).

Source of Acquisition:

Presented by the sons of Major William Yule (1764-1839), 1847

Administrative Context:

India

Finding Aids:

Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 978, pp. 447-51
Rieu, Charles, Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols. (London: The British Museum, 1879-83), vol. 2, pp. 438-39

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Names:

Yule, William, Major, 1764-1839