Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 1839] الشَرْح الجَدیدُ

<strong>Scholastic Theology.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1839 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Otto Loth, </strong><strong><em>A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</em>, (volume 1), no. 414 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>. 414. 1839. Size 8^3/4 in. by 5^1/2 in.; foll. 305. Nineteen and eighteen lines in a page. The first part of the same work, consisting of three separate portions. Foll. 1-136. Chapter (مقصد) I., without the preface. Written in Nasta’liḳ. According to the <em>Persian</em> colophon, it was transcribed from a bad copy in eight days between 10^th Dhû-alḥijjah, 1063, and 1^st Muḥarram, 1064, by Muḥammad Mu’min Khalîl. It was, however, collated subsequently with a copy which had been revised by the author. Foll. 136<em>v</em>.-213. The first four sections of Chapter (مقصد) II. Transcribed, “in haste,” by the same hand as the preceding, Dated 5^th Rabî’I., 1063. Collated with the aforesaid copy. Marginal notes, chiefly taken from the glosses of Ṣadr al-dîn.¹ Foll. 147-150 are misplaced. Two leaves are missing after fol. 200. Foll. 214-305. The remaining portion of Chapter II. A separate volume, written in Nasta’liḳ, by ‘Abdallah Mashhadî, at Shâhjahânâbâd. Date, 4^th Rabî’II., 1062. Emendations on the margin. [Hastings.] ¹ See below, no. 424.