Philosophy [IO Bijapur 141] Glosses on Dawwānī

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 141 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 545 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

545.

B 141. Size 81/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 85. Seventeen lines in a page.

Glosses on Dawwânî’s Commentary, by Molla ‘ABDALLAH YAZDÎ. These Glosses are not mentioned by Ḥ. Kh., but they are often quoted on the margin of the Lakhnau edition of the commentary, under the name of يزدى .

The preface begin:

غاية تهذيب الكلام‘ بحمدالله العزيز العلام

The first gloss is:

قوله تهذيب المنطق و الكلام التهذيب التجريد و التنقيه الخ

This MS. terminates abruptly, though a formal conclusion has been add to it, running as follows:

تمت الحاشية الشريفة التى صنفها الفاضل الكامل المحقق المدقق مولانا عبدالله الترذی (اليزدى.r) الطاقى غفرالله تعالى له ولوالديه الخ

Neatly written in Nasta’lîḳ, but rather incorrect; of the eleventh century. Injured by insects.

This MS. was once in the possession of Bahâ al-dîn b. Muḥammad Laithî Jazâ’irî.

Cat. 236, iii. 2, or 4. [ed note: = Ḥaqīm Ḥamid al-Dīn's Urdu catalogue prepared at the behest of H. B. Frere] 

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