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<dl><dd>Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002</dd>
<dd>49 pages : 180 x 120 (130 x 90) mm, bound to 180 x 135 mm</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Manuscript codex</dd>
<dd>Title for works from added title page to each work (f. 1r, 35r)</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Layout: 22 long lines</dd>
<dd>Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed</dd>
<dd>Decoration: Rubrications in red</dd>
<dd>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</dd>
<dd>Shelfmark: MS Or 300</dd>
<dd>Owner's notes and one effaced stamp (flyleaf 1 recto at the front, f. 1r, 35r)</dd>
<dd>Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934</dd>
<dd>Bound in modern cardboard with flap; printed red and blue leaf and fruit patterned sides; plain light blue paper pastedowns; red leather spine and flap hinge</dd>
<dd>Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description</dd>
<dd><b>Columbia University Catalog: </b>&lt;a href="<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14566181">http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14566181</a>" rel="nofollow"&gt;go to CLIO&lt;/a&gt;</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar, -1265. Hidāyat al-ḥikmah; Islamic philosophy -- Early works to 1800; Astronomy, Arab -- Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Arabic; Astronomy, Arab; Islamic philosophy</div>
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