Philosophy [IO Islamic 1233]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1233 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 484 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

484.

1233. Size 8 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 174. Twenty-nine lines in a page.

Another Commentary on Ibn Sînâ’s الاشارات, by ‘Izz al-daulah Sa’d b. Manṣûr, commonly called IBN KAMMÛNAH, a Jewish philosopher (d. A.H. 676). See Ḥ. Kh. i. 303, and regarding other woks of this author, Cat. Bodl. ii. 562, Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 606, Cat. Lugd. iii. 349, etc.

In two parts, the first of which (foll. 1-59) contains the Logic, and begins, without an introduction, as follows: قال العبد الفقیر الی رحمة الله تعالی سعد بن منصور بن سعد بن الحسن بن هبة الله بن کمونة وفقه الله لطاعته...احمد الله علی حسن توفیقه1 لما نزل من السفر الیه منزلة التقدم بالاعداد للراحلة و الزاد. Concludes: فهذا ما اردت اثباته من المنطق و مباحث المنطق کثیرة جدا لکن ما خرج منها عن هذا القدر الذی (قد) اوردته فلیس بمهمّ عند طالبی الحقائق الخ.

The second part (foll. 60-174) comprises the Physics and Metaphysics. It is inscribed: القسم الثانی فی علمی الطبیعة و ما قبله مع ما یندرج فیهما من غیرهما.

The conclusion begins as follows:

فهذا ما تیسر ایراده علی حکم العجلة فی اوقات مختلسة من الشواغل الدنیویة من غیر معاودة تنقیح و لا مراجعة تهذیب الخ.

Carefully written, but almost without diacritical points, by..2 b. ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. ‘Abdallah, a Mâlikî divine. Dated Tuesday, 12th Rabî’ II. (?), 734. Revised.

A defect after fol. 15. The first few leaves are misplaced; they should stand thus: 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 2, 7; and the last leaves should be placed in the following order: 168, 170, 169, 172, 171, 173, 174. Injured by insects, especially at the end.

[Johnson.]

1 These words of Ibn Sînâ are wrongly cited by Ḥ. Kh. as the beginning of the present work.

2 Erased.