Philosophy [IO Islamic 1420]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1420 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 480 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

480.

B 175, 176. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 251. Seventeen lines in a page.

Another Commentary (by قوله ) on Ibn Sînâ’s الاشارات و التنبیهات , by NAṢÎR AL-DÎN ṬÛSÎ (d. A.H. 672). It was composed A.H. 644, and entitled حل مشکلات الاشارات. See Ḥ. Kh. i. 302; Cat. Lugd. iii. 321; and Cat. St. Petersb. 60.

This work is dedicated to a patron, who is styled المجلس الرفیع ربیب الدولة و شهاب الملة قدوة الحکماء و الاطبّاء سیّد الاکابر و الفضلاء. It is partly written in refutation of the critics of Râzî, who is here called الفاضل الشارح. It begins: صدر الکتاب قول الشیخ رحمه الله احمد الله علی حسن توفیقه و اسأله هدایة طریقه و الهام الحقّ بتحقیقه افاد الفاضل الشارح ان هذه المعانی الخ.

The present copy consists of three separate volumes. Vol. I. (foll. 1-87) contains the first part, on Logic. II. (foll. 88-163) gives the first three انماط of the second part, on Physics. It begins: قال الشیخ هذه اشارات الی اصول و تنبیهات علی جُمَلٍ الخ. III. (foll. 164-251) contains the remaining seven انماط, on Metaphysics, but is slightly imperfect at the end.

Carefully written in three hands. Of the eighth or ninth century. Vols. II. and III. are revised throughout. The following note is at the end of Vol. I.: وقفتُ و ظفرتُ بکتاب کتبت (!) فی سنة خمس و ثمانین و ستمائة لکن ما اتفقت المقابلة و التصحیح من کثرة الاشغال و قلة حضور البال اللهم حقق اسرارنا بحقائق الوصال.....کتبه صغیر الدین محمد الطبیب الکیلانی فی قریة الطائف حما عنه (!) فی سنة ٩٨٥.

Injured by insects.

This MS. Belonged to Ibrâhîm ‘Âdil Shâh II. (Nauras).

Cat. 226, xxv.