Philosophy [IO Islamic 1811] کتاب الشفاء‎ [parts]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1811 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 477 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

477.

1811. Size 111/4 in. by 61/2 in. foll. 286. Thirty lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-264. The remaining portion of the preceding work, written in the same hand, and arranged in the following manner:-1

1. (foll. 1-44) Geometry; without title, but concluding: تم فن الهندسة.

2. (foll. 47-131) Astronomy. Concludes: تم فن الهیئة. Then follows the colophon of the original copy, which begins: تم الدفتر التاسع و هو ثانی الریاضیات. This copy had been written by ‘Abd al-ḳaiyûm b. al-Ḥusain b. ‘Alî Fârisî, A.H. 642.

3. (foll. 134-149) Arithmetic. Begins:

الفن الثالث من الجملة الاولی (!) و هو اربع مقالات تم الارثماطیقی الخ

4. (foll. 152-174) Music. Begins:

الفن الثانی عشر من الریاضیات من کتاب الشفاء و هو فی الموسیقی و قد حان لنا ان نختم الجزء الریاضی من الفلسفة بایراد جوامع علم الموسیقی الخ

Fol. 174v. contains an epilogue to this part by the aforesaid Saiyid Muḥammad. Date, A.H. 1152.

Each of the preceding parts was copied from “an old MS.,” and collated with another which had been written at Mauṣil, A.H. 652.

5. (foll. 179-264) Metaphysics. Begins:

الفن الثالث عشر من کتاب الشفاء فی الالهیات

This part concludes also (fol. 264) with an epilogue by Saiyid Muḥammad. It was transcribed from a copy of A.H. 897. The aforesaid Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ finished it at Shâhjahânâbâd, on 2nd Rabî’ I., 1154 (فی الثانی من الشهر الثالث من السنة الرابعة بعد العقد الخامس من المائة الثانیة من الالف الثانی من هجرة من لا ثانی له فی الوجود الخ). He concludes with a poem in praise of the work, beginning:

تم کتاب هو الجُمانُ وَهْوَ عن الکون ترجمانُ

Each of the above parts has an ornament on its first page; the vacant leaves between them are ornamented with gold lines.

II. Foll. 266-286. The first part of the author’s abridgement of the preceding work, called النجاة, on Logic. This work has been printed at Rome, 1593, as an appendix to Ibn Sînâ’s Ḳânûn. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 303.

Begins: قال الشیخ الرئیس ابوعلی بن (!) الحسین ابن عبدالله بن سینا رحمه الله اما بعد حمد الله و الثناء علیه بما هو اهله و مستحقه الخ.

Written in the same hand as the preceding, with gold borders.

In an elegant illuminated binding. This MS. And the two preceding are from Lakhnau.

[Johnson.]

1The numbering seems to be in confusion, as is also the case with the Leyden MS. (l.c., p. 319).