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Object numberMS 1495 [Handlist 77]
TitleRisālat al-nafs
Creatoral-Khaṭṭāb (Author)
DescriptionA treatise on the soul. There is a detailed summary of the treatise in Poonawala's book on al-Khaṭṭāb (Poonawala (1999), pp. 437-445). The author invokes al- Ṭayyib as 'the imam of our age' (fol. 2a). Here, as in the manuscript described by Gacek, the text of the risala is preceded by one of al-Khaṭṭāb's poems (no. 9 in Poonawala's edition;
see his footnote no. 2, which affirms that the poem is found in some, but not all copies of the Risālat al-nafs.
REFERENCES: al-Majdū‘, pp. 198-199; Ivanow (1933), no. 180; Ivanow (1963), no. 188; Goriawala (1965), no. 8; Poonawala (1977), p.135, no. 3; Gacek (1984), no. 132.
DESCRIPTION: cloth binding with red leather spine; 28 folios; catchwords; 16 x 11 em (10.5 x 7 em); irregular number oflines; black ink (red rubrics and verse dividers only on the first two pages and the one word ‘faṣl’ on fol. 18b; some of the spaces for rubrics are left blank); irregular naskh; some marginal corrections; no scribe indicated; completed on Sunday 26 Dhu’l-ḥijja 1273 ( 16 August 1857); title and author indicated on the labels on the front cover and spine and at the beginning of the text; seals.
see his footnote no. 2, which affirms that the poem is found in some, but not all copies of the Risālat al-nafs.
REFERENCES: al-Majdū‘, pp. 198-199; Ivanow (1933), no. 180; Ivanow (1963), no. 188; Goriawala (1965), no. 8; Poonawala (1977), p.135, no. 3; Gacek (1984), no. 132.
DESCRIPTION: cloth binding with red leather spine; 28 folios; catchwords; 16 x 11 em (10.5 x 7 em); irregular number oflines; black ink (red rubrics and verse dividers only on the first two pages and the one word ‘faṣl’ on fol. 18b; some of the spaces for rubrics are left blank); irregular naskh; some marginal corrections; no scribe indicated; completed on Sunday 26 Dhu’l-ḥijja 1273 ( 16 August 1857); title and author indicated on the labels on the front cover and spine and at the beginning of the text; seals.
DocumentationBlois, François de. Arabic, Persian and Gujarati Manuscripts: The Hamdani Collection. London: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2011.
Object typemanuscript