Philosophy [IO Bijapur 164]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 164 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 487 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

487.

B 164. Size 73/4 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 111. Seventeen lines in a page.

A Commentary (ممزوج) on the second and third parts, or Physics and Metaphysics, of Athîr al-dîn Mufaḍḍal b. ‘Omar Abharî’s2 (d. A.H. 663) الهدایة, by Kamâl al-dîn Ḥusain b. Mu’în al-dîn MAIBUDHÎ3 (also called Ḳâḍi Mîr). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 474, Cat. St. Petersb. 208, and Cat. Bodl. ii. 611.

This commentary was printed at Clacutta and at Lakhnau. According to a note at the end of the latter edition, it was composed A. H. 880.

The preface begins: الهدایة امر من لدیه، و کل شئ یعود الیه. The author mentions in it that this is his first work. The first part of the Hidâyah, on Logic, having become disused in his time, he excluded it from his present task. He also omitted those passages which had already been sufficiently explained by earlier commentators.

The two parts (قسم) of the Hidâyah comprised in this commentary are subdivided into the following chapters (فنّ): Part II. الطبیعیات (foll. 5-71): 1. (fol. 6) فیما یعم الاجسام, in ten فصل; 2. (fol. 36) فی الفلکیات, in eight فصل; 3 (fol. 54) فی العنصریات, in six فصل,-Part III. الالهیات (foll. 72-104): 1. فی تقاسیم الوجود, in seven فصل; 2. (foll. 87) فی العلم بالصانع و صفاته, in ten فصل; 3. (foll. 97v.) فی الملائکة, in four فصل. To this follows an appendix (خاتمة, fol. 104) فی احوال النشأة الآخرة.

Well written in Nasta’liḳ, with marginal notes, partly derived from the author. Dated Rajab, 1005. Foll. 1-17 have been supplied by a different hand.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1023, from Molla Pâyandah.

Cat. 238, i.

2 Alias Abahrî.

3 From Maibudh, near Yazd, according to the glosses described under no. 490.