Scholastic Theology [IO Bijapur 178]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 178 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 421 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

421.

B 178. Size 81/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 175. From eighteen to thirty-one lines in a page.

Notes on the greater part of Dawwânî’s الحاشیة القدیمة, by Molla MÎRZÂ JÂN (Ḥabîb Allah Shîrâzî, d. A.H. 994). See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 202, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 387.

The first note comments on the commencement of the Tajrîd; it begins: قال المص رحمه الله اما بعد حمد واجب الوجود علی نعمائه اقول لا یبعد ان یقال فی ترک الموصوف ههنا ایماء لطیف.

The second note refers to words of Ḳûshjî, thus: قال الشارح رح فافعل ههنا الخ لا یبعد ان یحمل الخ, and the third to the first words of Dawwânî, قوله رحمه الله مراده بالزیادة الخ. The last gloss is: قوله فان المیل الطبیعی الخ (referring to words from fol. 120 of no. 417).

Written in different hands, partly in an illegible Shikastah, with numerous marginal notes by the author. The colophon runs as follows: تمّ الکتاب بعون الملک الوهاب و رزقنی الله السعی فی اتمامه بالکتابة و الاستکتاب فمنه الابتداء و الیه الانتهاء و لکل شئ عنده مرجع و مآب و انا العبد الراقم خوشحال.

Two leaves are missing after fol. 7, and twenty-six after fol. 51.

The seal (A.H. 1013) and signature of the owner, Khushḥâl, are on the title-page. On the last fol. is a list of twenty-four books, which he had with him at Burhânpûr.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1054. Seal of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh.

Cat. 226, xix.