Philosophy [IO Islamic 2150]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2150 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 483 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

483.

2150. Size 81/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 107. Twenty-two lines in a page.

Glosses to Ṭûsî’s Commentary on the Physics of الاشارات, and to the corresponding portion of Taḥtânî’s المحاکمات, by Ḥabîb Allah MÎRZÂ JÂN Bâghandî1 (alias Shîrâzî, d. A.H. 994). See Ḥ. Kh. i. 303, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 627.2

These glosses are dedicated to the Ṣafawî Shâh Ismâ’îl II. (السلطان بن السلطان بن السلطان ابو المظفر شاه اسمعیل الحسینی الصفوی بهادر خان), who reigned from A.H. 983 to 985. Though, in the preface, Ṭûsî’s commentary and المحاکمات, or شرح الشرح, are spoken of in equal terms, the glosses refer only to the latter work, with the words قوله المح (i.e. المُحاکِم).

In the preface allusion is made to the names of the author and the commentators, and their respective works, as follows:

الحمدلله الذی شفی علیل الحکمة باشارات فائقة، وروی غلیل العلم و المعرفة بتنبیهات رائقة...و الصلوة و السلام علی رئیس الامّة و نصیرهم یوم الغُمّة، فخر الانبیاء المرسلین، حبیب رب العالمین، اعنی مُحاکِم محکمة العدالة، و قطب فلک الرسالة الخ.

The first gloss begins: قوله المح بل یکفی فی اثباته اما مجرد ملاحظة تصوراته او النظرالسابق اقول لا یذهب علی من تتبع فصول الکتاب الخ.

Closely written in Nasta’liḳ, with notes by the author.

The title-page, which is covered with various notes, bears the seal of a “servant” of Muḥammad Shâh.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

1 This MS. Has الباغنوی. See however, Cat. Lugd. iii. 323.

2 In the latter it is, however, taken for Taḥtânî’s commentary