Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 1295] مَمْزُوج [part]

Scholastic Theology.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1295 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 444 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

444.

1295. Size 11 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 449. Twenty-three and twenty-five lines in a page.

The first part of the شرح المواقف, to Book IV. The name of Ghiyâth al-dîn Pîr Muḥammad, to whom the work is dedicated in the preface, is preceded here by that of Jalâl al-dîn Iskandar (جلال الحق و الدولة و الدین اسکندر غیاث الخ), which perhaps was substituted for it subsequently.

Well written in Nasta’liḳ, by two hands. Gold lines round the pages. The first two pages are richly ornamented. Book IV. (fol. 345) formed originally a separate volume.

This copy was made for ‘Abd al-‘aẓîm Ḥanafî, according to a note at the end, which is dated 22nd Jum. II., 48th year of ‘Âlamgîr (=A.H. 1116 [=October 1704 CE]). It belonged subsequently to his grandson Muḥammad Ghauth (A.H. 1160). The fly-leaf has a French inscription, “Chera mavakef commentaire sur la philosophie de Socrate” (!), written probably by Nicolas de la Merliere, from whom the copy passed to R. Johnson. In an elegant Oriental biding.

[Johnson.]