Risālah al-manāmīyah رسالة المنامية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى

Content

Treatise on dream interpretation here falsely attributed to 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 text is in fact by one of Ibn Sīnā's teachers, the physician ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá Abū Sahl al-Masīḥī al-Jurjānī (عيسى بن يحيى أبو سهل المسيحي الجرجاني, fl. 1010).

A cancelled colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. at the end of the text states that the copy was completed by Ibn Muḥammad Amīn Muḥammad Naṣīr al-Lāhijānī al-Gīlānī (ابن محمد أمين محمد نصير اللاهجاني الكيلاني) on Nowrūz, Wednesday 18 Ṣafar 1091/10 March 1680 for his patron Muḥammad Taqī ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Ḥakīm al-Gīlānī al-Lashteh-yi Nishāʾī (محمد تقي بن محمد حسين الحكيم الكيلاني اللشته نشائي), a resident of Akbarābād (Agra, f. 552r, lines 21-26, transcribed below). This colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. must have been copied from the exemplar since it predates the colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. of text 6 (f. 34v) by almost a century. A similar cancellation of concluding material copied from the exemplar but extraneous to the main body of the text is seen in item 7, above (f. 100v, lines 18-25; in that case not a colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. but editorial material appended to the Medicean 1593 printed edition of Avicenna's Kitāb al-najāh ).

Cancelled colophon Section at the end of a manuscript text. (f. 552r, lines 21-26):

... تمت هذه الرسالة الشريفة المسمى برسالة المنامية على يد أقل الخليقة

بل اللا شيء في الحقييقة ابن محمد أمين محمد نصير اللاهجاني الكيلاني في يوم الأربعاء الثامن عشر

شهر الصفر موافقة لنيروز الفرس في خدمت الأخ الأعز الأرحمبند البارع المندين المتودع

في العلم والعمل محمد تقي بن محمد حسين الحكيم الكيلاني اللشته نشائي الأصل

ساكن دار الخلافة أكبرآباد بلد من بلاد الهندوستان في سنة إحدى و تسعين بعد الألف

من هجرة (!) النبوية المصطفى وبه صلوات الله وسلامه عليه وعلى آله

Extent and format

Ff. 524v-552r

It is part of

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

1208 images

Ref: Add MS 16659

Written in

Arabic in Arabic script

Type

Manuscript item

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: Oriental Manuscripts

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Add MS 16659, ff 524v-552r

History of this record

Date(s)

1182 (AH, Hijri qamari)

Related material

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

Select Bibliography

Editions and translations:

• Khan, M. ʻAbdul Muʻid, 'A Unique Treatise on the Interpretation of Dreams by Ibn Sina, Edited with an Introduction,' Avicenna Commemoration Volume (Calcutta: Iran Society, 1956), pp. 257–307
• Khan, M. ʻAbdul Muʻid, 'Kitabu Taʻbir-ir-Ruya of Abu ʻAli b. Sina', Indo-Iranica 9 (1956), 15–57

Study:

• Gutas, Dimitri, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition. Introduction to Reading Avicenna’s Philosophical Works , 2nd ed., including an Inventory of Avicenna’s Authentic Works (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014), p. 526

Subjects

Dream Interpretation

People & organisations

‘Īsá ibn Yaḥyá MasīḥīAvicenna

Share this record

• Share on twitter
• Share on facebook

Cite this record in your research

Risālah al-manāmīyah رسالة المنامية Masīḥī, ʻĪsá ibn Yaḥyá مسيحي، عيسى بن يحيى, British Library: Oriental Manuscripts, Add MS 16659, ff 524v-552r, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000023> [accessed 20 May 2024]

Link to this record

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100148048612.0x000023

IIIF details

This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000001517.0x000093/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images

Copyright: How to use this content