Philosophy [IO Islamic 509] Glosses on الرسالة الشمسية

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 509 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 507 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

507.

509. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in.; foll 259. Nine lines in a page.

Glosses to Ḳuṭb al-ḍin’s Commentary on the Shamsîyah, by SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ (d. A.H. 816). Cf. H. Kh. iv. 76, Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 348, and Stewart, 119.

This work was printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1261.

Well written, with copious marginal notes both at the beginning and end. The colophon run as follows:

قد تم هذه وقت العصر من يوم السبت ٢٠ من ٨ سنة ١٠٧٨ من يد المصطفى عفي عنه

and on the margin is written:

قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير الحواشي من اول مبحث القضايا الى هنا ه ذي قعدة سنة ١٠٧٨

Ornamented. Fol. 258 should be placed before 250.

[ed note: the colophon gives السبت ٢٠ من ٨ سنة ١٠٧٨  = February 4, 1668 and names one Mustafa as the copyist; the marginal note gives ذو القعدة سنة 1078 = April 1668.]

[ed note: A supercommentary to the commentary of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī [otherwise Quṭb al-Taḥtānī, d. 1364-65] on al-Risālah al-Shamsīyah of ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī: see quick link for an explanation.]