Encyclopedia [IO Bijapur 453]

Encyclopedia. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 453 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1028 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. ENCYCLOPEDIA. 1028. B453. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 12. Twenty-five and twenty-three lines in a page. Foll. 5-12. An encyclopedic treatise, by ḤABÎB ALLAH MÎRZÂ JÂN SHÎRÂZÎ (d. A.H. 994), written for a friend named Muḥammad (سمّی حبیب الله صلعم). It gives specimens of nine sciences, with critical remarks on them; viz., 1.البحث الاول من التفسیر; 2. المعانی; 3. البیان; 4. الاصول; 5. الکلام; 6. المنطق; 7. العلم الطبیعی; 8. الالهی; 9. الهیئة. Begins: جل و علا من تحیر عقول العارفین فی کنه جماله. Written in a good Nasta’lîḳ hand, but without diacritical points. Long notes on the margin. Dated A.H. 1000. It is preceded by- Foll. 1-4. A Commentary on the verse of the Koran, Sû, 2, 256; styled in the conclusion الرسالة الشریفة لحضرت حافظ کویکری (!). Begins: الله لا اله الا هوالله اسم عربی الخ. Legibly written.