Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 240]

Scholastic Theology. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 240 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 460 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 460. B 240. Size 93/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 248. Twenty-one lines in a page. تتمة الحواشی لمولانا یوسف قدس سره العزیز Annotations on the preceding Glosses, written by the author, MOLLA YÛSUF himself. He makes reference in them to the glosses of Khalkhâlî, which had appeared in the mean time. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 217 sq., according to whom the present work was finished in Shawwâl, 1033, at Bukhâra. The preface quoted in Ḥ. Kh. is omitted. Beginning: (قوله)1 کیف لا احمد و کیف احمد اظهار لوجوب الحمد بسبب النِعَم و عظمها الخ. Well written. At the end is the following Persian distich: عاشق ثابت قدم آنکس بود در کوی دوست رو نگرداند اگر شمشیر بارد در سرش 1 This word, though no blank is left for it in this MS., must be supplied, the author commenting here on the preface of his first work.