• Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 865] الشَرْح الجَدیدُ

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 865 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 409 here with notations and hyperlinks].

409.

865. Size 101/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 348. Twenty-one lines in a page.

A Commentary (ممزوج) on the Tajrîd [ed note:= Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid  تجريد العقائد by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī] by ‘Alâ al-dîn ‘Ali b. Muḥammad ḲÛSHJÎ (i.e. the Falconer, d. A.H. 879, at Constantinople [ed note: his gravestone is at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, in Istanbul]. It is commonly called الشرح الجدید, and was dedicated by the author to Sulṭân Mughîth al-dîn Abu Sa’îd Gurgan (کورکان), the Timuride [ed. note: = ابو سعید میرزا]. See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 198; Cat. St. Petersb. 229 and 303. The work was printed in Persia (s.l.), A.H. 1274.

The commentary begins:

اما بعد حمد واجب ....احبّائه ای علی آله و اصحابه الذین هم موصوفون بزیادة الکرم

Beautifully written. Dated Rabî’ I., 874 [=8 September 1469]. With additional notes by the author (marked with منه سلمه الله). Gold lines round the pages.

There precedes a detailed list of contents, of later origin (foll. 1-4).

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