Philosophy [IO Bijapur 146, 167] Glosses on الهداية, Commentary on الشمسية

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 146, 167 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 584 here with notations and hyperlinks].

584.

B 146, 167. Size 7 in. by 4 in.; foll. 151. Seventeen lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-71. SAIYID SHARÎF’S Glosses on Ḳuṭb al-dîn’s Commentary on the Shamsîyah (see no. 507).

The latter portion wanting. Eight leaves missing after fol. 31.

II. Foll. 72-151. MÎRAK’s Commentary on the Hidâyah (see no. 493).

The first leaf missing. Begins:

و تصير عالَماً

Both pieces are boldly written, by Yûsuf b. Muḥammad b. Yûsuf Zauzanî. The second is dated 4th Ṣafar, 825 [=28 January 1422]. Foll. 110 sqq. Are worm-eaten, but the text is not injured.

[Bijapur Collection]