Philosophy [IO Islamic 1618]

Philosophy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1618 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 588 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 588. 1618. Size 81/2 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 97. Three, five, fourteen, eighteen, and fifteen lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-50. Sa’d al-dîn TAFTÂZÂNÎ’S تهذيب المنطق (see no. 534), with numerous marginal notes. Well written. A double red line round text and notes. Foll. 18-24 reversed. II.Foll. 51-70 The logical treatise called الشمّة or مختصر الميزان (see no. 575). Well written in a large hand. Has the following colophon:تمت هذه وقت العشاء من يوم السبت ٣ من ١٠ سنة ١٠٧٨ على يد المصطفى بن عبد القائم عفى عنه. III.Foll. 71-86. AḤMAD B. SULAIMÂN’S Commentary on the passage ضابطة , from the Tahdhîb, the same as no. 553, viii. Plainly written. Dated Ramaḍân, 1106. Injured by insects. IV.Foll. 87-95. Another Commentary on the same passage, identical with no. 553, vii., ascribed here to ‘IMÂD AL-DÎN. It is followed immediately (foll. 95-97) by the Glosses of MÎR ABU’L-FATḤ on the same passage (see no. 543). Well written. Injured by insects. [Gaikwar.]