Philosophy [IO Bijapur 145] تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 145 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 503 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

503.

B 145. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 133. Fifteen and twenty-five lines in a page.

The Commentary of ḲUṬB AL-DÎN Maḥmûd b. Muḥammad RÂZÎ TAḤTÂNÎ (d. A.H. 766 [=1394 CE]) on the Shamsîyah [ed note: i.e. al-Shamsīyah fī al-Qawāʾid al-Manṭiqīyah of ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar al-Qazwīnī (d. 1276-77 CE]

This is a commentary by قال and اقول . It is entitled تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية , but is often simply called قطبي . The author dedicated it to Amîr Aḥmad Sharaf al-din.2 Cf. Cat. Bodl. ii 354 [= Bodleianae Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium Catalogi Partis Secundae Volumen]; Fleischer, Cat. Lips, 348; Casiri, i. 180. The work was printed in 1815, at Calcutta, and also, with glosses, in A.H. 1263, s.l. (Lakhnau?).

A valuable copy, dated 28th Rajab, 777 [= 31 December 1375 CE]. It was transcribed by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Muḥyi al-dîn, in the Madrasah of Amîr Mûsa at Lârandah (لارنده) [ed. note = modern Karaman], the capital of Ḳaramân. Marginal notes.

The first few leaves are wanting. Begins: تعريفا له و انما عرّف.

Foll. 125 and 126, inserted by a later hand, repeat the contents of the preceding fol., but with the full text of Shamsîyah.

There is added (foll. 130v.-132) ATHÎR AL-DÎN ABHARÎ’S ايساغوجي (see no. 497), closely written in the same hand. Then follow various notes.

Slightly injured by damp.

Cat. 236, vi. 2.

2 The statement of Ḥ. Kh. is incorrect.

[Bijapur Collection]