Philosophy [IO Islamic 1709] Annotations to the Glosses of Sayyid Sharīf

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1709 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 516 here with notations, notes and hyperlinks].

516.

1709. Size 73/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 156. Mostly eighteen lines in a page.

Annotations to the Glosses of Saiyid Sharîf [Jurjānī, d. Shiraz 6 July 1413], by Molla (Ḳara) DÂ’ÛD [قره داوود], a pupil of Taftâzânî. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 77.1

These annotations extend only over the first مقالة of the Shamsîyah. They begin:

(قوله) و رتبته على مقدمة الی اخره و اعلم ان المص ره قال نمیسارة (فاشار.r) الیّ من سعد لطف (بلطف .r) الحق الخ.

Carelessly written in Nasta’lîḳ. Dated Friday, 1st Dhu’l-ḳa’dah, 1044 [= 4 April 1635 CE]. The name of the copyist erased.

Foll. 50-55 should be placed between foll. 1 and 2.

Seal of Nuṣrat Jang (A.H. 1176 [= 1763-63 CE]).

[Tippu.]

1 Compare, however, Catal St. Petersb., p. 66, xcii. [i.e. Ces gloses ont pour auteur, suivant le verso du premier feuillet du manuscrit, Cara Davoud [قره قره داوود], descendant de Davoud ben Kemal el-Codjewy (داوود بن كمل القوجوى), mort en 860 = 1456, suivant Hadji Khalfa, ou en 893 = 1487, selon M. de Hammer (Leipziger Literatur-Zeitung 1828, No. 80)].