Ghāyat al-surūr fī sharḥ Dīwān al-shudhūr

395 leaves, bound, (19 lines; leaves 169a-171a blank) : 21 cm Manuscript Arabic Title is given in the text (fol. 168b lines 5-6, fol. 174a line 17) and the colophon (fol. 395b line 7) The scribe was Muḥammad Haykal al-Darawī (fol. 168b line 15 and fol. 395b line 11) An alchemical-mystical commentary by Jildaki on an allegorical poem, Dīwān al-shudhūr al-dhahab by Ibn Arfaʻ Raʻs The manuscript is dated 1180 [1766 or 1767] on fol. 168b and fol. 395b Purchased in 1941 by the Army Medical Library from A. S. Yahuda (ELS no. 1692, med. 56.) The commentary, which includes the collection of poems, is arranged in two parts, fol. 1a-168b and fols. 171b-395b, each having a colophon The beginning of the text is missing; nineteen quires of ten folios each were numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals, and the first two of these quires are now missing from the volume Paper is brown and rather opaque with laid and double chain lines visible Catchwords, brown ink, rubrications; the poem upon which the commentary is based is written in red ink; there are some marginalia emending the text Described in: Schullian & Sommer. Cat. of incun. & MSS., 1950, A14 Neither the name of the author of the commentary nor of the poem are given; the commentary is usually ascribed to al-Jildakī (see Ullmann, M. Natur u. Geheim. Islam, 1972, p. 239), the poem to Ibn Arfaʻ Raʻs (see Ullmann, p. 231-2 and 239) Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Army Medical Library, 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm Condition reviewed 20161122 inspection and duplication of camera master microfilm deferred 20050107 digitized. 2018