Philosophy [IO Islamic 1492] Glosses on الرسالة الشمسية with further explanatons

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1492 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 513 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

513.

1492. Size 71/2 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 160. Mostly thirteen lines in a page.

The preceding Glosses of SAIYID SHARÎF, introduced here by the words:

الحمدلله علي جزيل نواله و الصلوة علی رسوله محمد و آله

They are accompanied, on the margin, by two successive explanations:--

1. Foll. 1-121. The Glosses of ‘IMÂD b. Yaḥya b. ‘Alî Fârisî,1 which extend over the first مقالة  of the Shamsîyah, and refer both to Saiyid Sharîf’s glosses and to the commentary of Ḳuṭb al-dîn.

The date runs as follows:

هذا آخر ما اردنا ايراده في هذا الكتاب و الحمدلله .... و قد وقع الفراغ من تاليفه في عاشر المحرم الاول من شهور السنة الاخيرة للعشر الخامس من تاسع مائی الهجریة  (!)  في بلدة هراة و من تسويده في الثامن شهر المحرم لسنة خمس و خـ[مسين] و ثمانمائة و الحمد لله الخ.

The author’s preface is written on the title-page of this volume. It begins :نحمدك يا من انطق لسان عبدة بايات جلاله.

2. Foll. 121v.-160. The Glosses of KHALÎL b. Muḥammad b. Raḍawî1 (Karamânî) on the remaining part of the work, viz., القضايا و القياسات  or,التصىيقات  as Ḥ. Kh. Styles it (iv. 78 sq., where he gives an abstract of the preface). These glosses also refer both to those of Saiyid Sharîf and to the commentary itself.

Very neatly written, of the eleventh century. Both the text and the margin are bordered with red lines.

[Johnson.]

1 So the author gives his name in the preface [ed note: likely Fārisī, ʻImād ibn Yaḥyá, -1494 or 1495]