Philosophy [IO Islamic 1756] ايساغوجي (with commentary)

Philosophy. ايساغوجي

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1756 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 497 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

497.

1756. Size 8 in. by 5 in.; foll. 72. Five and nine lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-13. ATHÎR AL-DÎN ABHARÎ’S (d. A. H. 663) Introduction to Logic, called ايساغوجي. See Ḥ. Kh. i. 502; Catal. St. Petersb. 69, etc. Printed at Lakhnau, A.H. 1260.

Written in a large hand. Dated 5th Muḥarram, 1096 (=27th year of Aurangzîb) [ed note: sic, the regnal year 27 fell in AH 1094/1683-84 CE, the date corresponding to the AH given is 12 December 1684]. It was transcribed by Rukn al-dîn b. Saiyid ‘Abdallah Ḥusainî, of Farîdâbâd (?), for his own use.

Vowel-points and notes have been added in the earlier portion. Fol. 7 should stand after fol.4.

II. Foll. 14-72. A Commentary on the preceding work, by Shams al-dîn Muḥammad b. Ḥamzah FANÂRÎ (d. A.H. 834).

It is here called یکروزی, because it was written down by the author in one day. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 503; Flϋgel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 603; Cat. St. Petersb. 74 (where it is, however, taken for a different work). It was printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1235.

Written in a large stiff hand, Dâniyâl b.’Abd Al- ḳawî Shaibânî, for his own use. Date, 4th Rabî’ II., 1055 (=30 May 1645). Notes.

[Hastings.]

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