Philosophy [IO Bijapur 153] شرح هداية الحكمة

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 153 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 494 here with notations and hyperlinks].

494.

B 153. Size 81/2 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 77. Nineteen lines in a page.

Another Commentary on the Physics and Metaphysics of the Hidâyah [شرح هداية الحكمة], which was composed, according to H. Kh. vi. 473, by Ahmad b. Maḥmûd Harawî الخرزياني, commonly called MAULÂNÂZÂDAH. Cf. Cat. Lugd. iii.364.

Another copy of this commentary, in the Bodleian Library (Catal. I., no. DCXVI.), was written A.H. 810.

The author, therefore, must have lived as early as the eighth century. He says in his preface:

 اما بعد فهذه مجلة مشتملة على شرح ما سوى المنطق من المختصر الموسوم بالهداية للامام المحقق و الفيلسوف المدقق .. الابهرى .. امليت (!) مع قلة البضاعة ... بالتماس طائفة من الخلان ... حيث لم يقع له شرح يكشف لهم عن وجوه فوائده نقابها الخ

This copy is in a peculiar, not always clear, handwriting. As appears from several notes on the margin of the last page, it was transcribed by ‘Alî b. Ḥâjjî Mîr (?) ‘Alî b. Mas’ûd, for his own use, A.H. 881.

Numerous marginal notes. Defects after foll. 15, 18, and 22. The first folio is supplied by a modern hand.

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