Philosophy [IO Bijapur 168]

Philosophy. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 168 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 492 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 492. B168. Size 61/2 in. by 41/4 in.; foll 48. Twenty-one lines in a page. Glosses on Maibudhî’s Commentary, by FAKHR AL-DÎN Muḥammad b. Ḥusain Ḥasanî2 (Astrâbâdî). See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 475. This is only the commencement of the work. The preface begins: الحمد لله العليم الحكيم . The author mentions in it that the rough draft of this work was made long before the present edition. Clearly written, often without diacritical points; in narrow columns, more than half the page remaining vacant; with some marginal notes by the author. The margin is injured by insects. Inscribed:حاشيه فقير سمّاك بر شرح هديه حكمت . Cf. Cat. 239, i.7(?) 2 Alias Ḥusainî.