Philosophy and Theology [IO Islamic 2310]

Philosophy and Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2310 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 594 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

594.

2310. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 108. Seventeen and nineteen lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-81. Glosses to the beginning of Dawwânî’s الحاشية القديمة . The author appears to be a younger contemporary of Dawwânî, and of Mîr Ṣadr al-dîn (السيد السند) , to whose second Ḥâshiyah he makes frequent reference.

Imperfect at the end. The right corner of fol. 1, with the first words of the text, is torn away.

Begins: ن سيد المحققين س الشريف لما راى ان المتعارف فى الخطب .

II. Foll. 82-108. The first portion of MÎRAK’S شرح حكمة العين , ending in the fourth بحث of the first مقالة . Marginal notes.

Written in a minute but clear Nasta’liḳ. Much injured by insects and by damp.

Both pieces bear the seal of ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. Muḥammad Akram, dated A.H. 1101 and A.H. 1120 respectively.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]