Digital facsimile of al-Rāzī's early 13th-century summary of and commentary on al-Ishārāt wa-al-tanbīhāt, a philosophical work on physics and metaphysics by Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna).
Creator:
Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar, 1149 or 1150-1210.
Transferred from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection to the Turkish Consulate General, New York, 2015.; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, June 2002 (LJS 440).; Formerly in the collection of the Yusufağa Kütüphanesi (5544/1), Konya, Turkey.
Publisher:
[Turkey?], [publisher not identified], A.H. 630 (1207)
Origin: Copy completed on 16 Shawwāl 630 (15 May 1207) (f. 58v).; Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.; Title from introduction (f. 1v).; Binding: Contemporary (early 13th-century) brown leather over pasteboard; central blind-tooled, circular medallion; rebacked.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines.; Collation: Paper, 58 + i; 1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-6¹⁰ 7²; [1-58], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto.; Dimensions of original manuscript: 254 x 165 (207 x 130) mm bound to 256 x 173 mm.; Arabic.
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