Miscellanies [IO Bijapur 450]

Miscellanies. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 450 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1040 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1040. B 450. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 75. Number of lines varying. I. Foll. 1-3. ‘ABD AL-GHAFÛR LÂRÎ’S (d. A.H. 912) Glosses on Jâmî’s preface to his Commentary on the Kâfiyah (see no. 928). Well written. Framed with red lines. II. Foll. 5-12. Glosses on the passage of Jâmî’s Commentary which treats of the “specification” التمییز, by MUḤAMMAD KÂSHIF. Begins: ان احسن ما یتمسک به فی الوصول الی ذروة الکمال الخ Clearly written in Nasta’lîḳ. III. Foll. 13-14. Two short treatises on Existence, identical with no. 586, V. and VI. Written in a minute character. IV. Fol.15r. A note on Apprehension, التصورات, by JALÂL AL-DÎN DAWWÂNÎ (d. A.H. 907), identical with that described in Cat. Lugd. iii. 380. V. Fol. 15v. A note on Necessity, beginning: اعلم ان الضرورة هی استحالة انفکاک نسبة المحمول الی الموضوع الخ Incomplete. VI. Foll. 16-18. Notes on a passage of Saiyid Sharîf Jurjânî’s Glosses on Ḳuṭb-aldîn’s Commentary on the Shamsîyah, identical with no. 585, II. They are ascribed here to ḤANAFÎ (مولانا حنفی). At the end is a note, beginning کل مدع ثابت ascribed to مولانا احمد جند, i.e. AḤMAD JANDÎ? VII. Foll. 19-22. A short logical treatise, proving the necessary to be only one. According to the inscription, هذه رسالة لطیفة مجموعة لطفیة (!) معنی وحدة الواجب و ادلته و بعض المغالطات, the author seems to be Molla LUṬFÎ (d. A.H. 900). VIII. Fol. 23. A definition of knowledge, beginning: العلم صفة توجب تمیزا لا یحتمل النقیض الخ Incomplete. IX. Fol. 24. A note on the Unity of God, beginning: قد تقرر فی علم الکلام ان المقصد الاقصی و المطلب الاعلی توحید الحق سبحانه الخ Incomplete. X. Foll. 25v.-26. Glosses on a definition of knowledge, ending abruptly. XI. Foll. 26v.-27. A note on the square-root (الجذر); written diagonally. XII. Foll. 27v.-36. A theosophic treatise on the Unity of God, by DAWWÂNÎ. Begins: الحمد لمن تفرد ...و بعد فهذه مباحث متعلقة بکلمة التوحید Conclusion: تمت الرسالة المنسوبة الی العامة (العلامة .r) الدوانی فی تحقیق کلمة التوحید It is followed (fol. 29v.) by Glosses on it, beginning: الخ قوله من الامور العامة XIII. Foll. 37-52. The latter portion of DAWWÂNÎ’S second treatise on the Divine Essence, رسالة اثبات واجب الوجود الجدید (!). See no. 468, II. Begins: الفصل الثالث فی توحیده Copied by ‘Abd al-raḥmân b, Yâdkâr Muḥammad اوراسامی (?). XIV. Foll. 55-75. Explanation of various idiomatic expressions, verses, etc., occurring in Jâmî’s Commentary on the Kâfiyah [ed. note = الفوائد الضيائية مخطوطة]. The author, who does not give his name, is, according to the inscription of the title-page, SHAMS AL-DÎN MUḤAMMAD ḲUHISTÂNÎ.1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 83. The work is dated A.H. 952 [=1545-56 CE]. The author wrote it in Transoxania. Begins: الحمدلله الذی رزقنا من العربیة رزقا کاملا الخ Marginal notes. Copied by Muḥammad شبرغانی, A.H. 996. 1 قوه الستانی (sic). [Bijapur Collection]