Philosophy [503]

Philosophy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic B145 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 503 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 503. B 145. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 133. Fifteen and twenty-five lines in a page. The Commentary of ḲUṬB AL-DÎN Maḥmûd b. Muḥammad RÂZÎ TAḤTÂNÎ (d. A.H. 766) on the Shamsîyah. This is a commentary by قال and اقول . It is entitled تحرير القواعد المنطقية في شرح الرسالة الشمسية , but is often simply called قطبي . The author dedicated it to Amîr Aḥmad Sharaf al-din.2 Cf. Cat. Bodl. ii 354; Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 348; Casiri, i. 180. The work was printed in 1815, at Calcutta, and also, with glosses, in A.H. 1263, s.l. (Lakhnau?). A valuable copy, dated 28th Rajab, 777. It was transcribed by Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Muḥyi al-dîn, in the Madrasah of Amîr Mûsa at Lârandah (لارنده) , the capital of Ḳaramân. Marginal notes. The first few leaves are wanting. Begins: تعريفا له و انما عرّف. Foll. 125 and 126, inserted by a later hand, repeat the contents of the preceding fol., but with the full text of Shamsîyah. There is added (foll. 130v.-132) ATHÎR AL-DÎN ABHARÎ’S ايساغوجي (see no. 497), closely written in the same hand. Then follow various notes. Slightly injured by damp. Cat. 236, vi. 2. 2 The statement of Ḥ. Kh. is incorrect.