Fakhr-al-Din Abi 'Abdullah Muhammad al-Razi (d.1209), Kitab al-muhassal afkar al-mutaqaddimin wa'l muta’akhkhirin min al-'ulama wa'l-hukama wa'l-mutakallimin ('Results of the Thoughts of Ancient and Late Scientists, Sages and Scholars'), a digest of Greek and Arab philosophy, copied by Ahmad Ibn Amiri al-Mumati, Syria, Damascus, dated 624 AH/1226-27 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 215 leaves plus 3 flyleaves, 21 lines to the page, written in neat naskh script in brown ink, keywords larger and in bold, first third with profuse marginal glosses, tooled leather binding, with flap 

In good overall condition, opening and closing leaves with minor paper repairs, pages generally clean with wide outer margins, as viewed.
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The present manuscript of Greek and Arab philosophy can be considered a particularly early example, copied within twenty years of the death of the author Al-Razi.

Fakhr-al-Din Abi 'Abdullah Muhammad Ibn 'Umar Ibn Husain Ibn al-Khatib al-Razi (1150-1209 AD), was born in Rayy and worked in both Rayy and Herat. He was a scholar-encyclopaedist and author of many philosophical, historical, astrological, theological and mystical treatises.

Other copies of the present work are in libraries in Cairo, the Escorial, Hyderabad and Mashhad (see B.A. Rosenfeld and E. Ihsanoglu, Mathematicians, Astronomers of Islamic Civilisation and their Works (7^th–19^th C.), Istanbul, 2003, pp.195-6, no.535). Another copy of this work dated 660 AH/1261-62 AD is in the Ambrosiana Library, Milan (see O. Lofgren and R. Traini, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, vol.II, Vicenza, 1981, pp.41-42, no.79.

A commentary on this work, dated Thursday 5 Shawwal 693 AH/29 August 1294 AD is in the Chester Beatty Library, see A. Arberry, A Handlist of the Arabic Manuscripts, Dublin, 1958, p.35, no.3582. See also Brockelmann, GAL, I, 507; Suppl.I, 923.