Philosophy [IO Islamic 3104] Anthology of four works

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 3104 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 590 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

590.

3104. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll.168. Nineteen and seventeen lines in a page.

I. Foll.1-110. A Persian Commentary (ممزوج) on Taftâzânî’s تهذيب المنطق (see no. 534).

Begins:

الحمد حمد در لغت وصفيست

Ends:

تمت الرسالة الموسومة بشرح الفارسى التهذيب فى ليلة الاثنين من شهر محرم الحرام سنة ٩٨٩ من الهجرة الخ.

Well written in Nasta’liḳ.

II. Foll. 113-159. Glosses on the Commentary of Sa’d al-dîn1 Mas’ûd Rûmî (Sharwânî, who flourished in the ninth century) on Shams al-dîn Samarḳandî’s (d. about A. H. 600) treatise on Dialectics آداب البحث (see no. 486). Cf. Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 298. The author of these glosses is not ascertained.

The preface begins:الحمدلله مفيض الوجود .

The author says subsequently:

و بعد فهذه رسالة من خواطر خاطری ... على شرح الرسالة المشهورة فيما بينهم فى الآداب للفاضل .... مولانا سعد الملة والدين مسعود الرومى تغمده الله بغفرانه .. علقتها عليه حين اشتغال جمع من الاذكياء باستكشافه عنى الخ

He dedicates his work to Jalâl al-din Maḥmûd.

Clearly written. The colophon runs as follows:

تمت الحاشية المسعودية على يد العبد ... حسين على الاسى (!) .. فى يوم الاثنين سابع شهر ربيع الاول سنة احدى و ثلثين و تسعمائة

III. Foll. 160-163v. The same Glosses as described under no. 585, ii.

Closely written in Nasta’liḳ. Conclusion:

تمت الرسالة .. تاريخه سنة احدى و ثلثين و تسعمائة

IV. Foll. 163v.168. A short logical treatise.

Begins:

اعلم ان العلم الذى قسموه الى التصور و التصديق عرفه بعضهم 1 بالصورة الحاصلة من الشىء عند الذات المجردة

The author of this treatise is not named. There are additional notes of his on the margin, marked with منه سلمه الله. He was, therefore, alive when this MS. was written, i.e. about A. H. 930.

Written like II. The colophon runs as follows:

وقد تم فى ربيع الاول المنتظم فى شهور سنة .. 2 ثلثين و تسعمائة 

Partly injured by insects.

Signature of Chas. Boddam, Calcutta, May 1st, 1787.

1 So in the preface, alias Kamâl al-dîn.

1 According to a gloss of the author’s, the authority alluded to is Râzî, in his شرح المطالع.

2 A blank.