Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 1246]

Scholastic Theology. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1246 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 457 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 457. 1246. Size 81/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 115. Thirteen and seventeen lines in a page. Another copy of DAWWÂNÎ’S Commentary. It gives at the end the author’s date as follows: Jairûn, Wednesday, 18th Rabî’ I., 905.1 Well written in two different hands, with the glosses of ‘ABDALLAH b. ‘Abd al-ḥakîm SIYÂLKÛTÎ on the margin of the first eight leaves. These glosses are preceded by a preface, which begins: باسمک اللهم ربی ابتدأ. In the original binding of Tippu’s library. [Tippu.] 1 This date differs from that given in Ḥ. Kh. iv. 217.