Philosophy and Theology [IO Bijapur 222]

Philosophy and Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 222 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 593 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

593.

B 222. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 121. Twenty-one, twenty-four, and twenty lines in a page.

I.Two fragments of the Glosses of MÎRZÂ JÂN (Ḥabîb Allah Shîrâzî, d. A. H. 994) to Mîrak’s Commentary on the حكمة العين (see no. 498), as well as to Saiyid Sharîf’s Glosses to this commentary. See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 103.

a.Foll. 1-55. The first portion, comprising the greater part of the first مقالة ; imperfect at the end.

Begins:قال الشارح اى الشاملة للمجرد و المبادى و مقابلاتها اقول يحتمل مقابلاتها معطوفا على قوله الشاملة.

Additions by the author on the margin.

b.Foll.56-81. Another fragment, extending from the end of the first to the commencement of the fourth مقالة of Part I., but defective after foll. 63, 71, 72, and 73.

Begins:الوجود لاضافته الى الشئ

The text of foll. 64-69 is in a state of confusion.

II.Foll. 82-121. A fragment of the Glosses of MÎRZÂ JÂN on Dawwânî’s الحاشية القديمة (see no. 421).

Begins with مبحث الماهية. Some additions by the author on the margin. A defect after fol. 83.

Written in three small Nasta’liḳ hands.

Cat. 226, xvi. 1.