Prayers and Charms [IO Bijapur 429B] *Epithets of God

Prayers and Charms.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 429B in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 343 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

343.

B 429B. Size 10 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 37. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

An explanation of the Epithets of God.

The first leaf being missing, the author and the title of the work are not ascertained. It appears, however, from a notice at the end that it consists chiefly of extracts from a treatise, whose author is merely called the “Ḳâḍi,” to which are invariably added other extracts from a work of Ḳushairî (d. A.H. 465), probably his التخبیر (see Ḥ. Kh. ii. 248). The passage in question runs as follows (fol. 37):

و ان المحقّقین من العلماء و الراسخین منهم قد صنّفوا فیها مصنّفات جمّة ذات ذیول و اطراف و لخّصها القاضی تلخیصا غریبا و کان اجمع للمقصود و اشمل فی المغزی فآثرنا ایراده من غیر تغییر و اضفنا الیه من کلام الشیخ ابی القاسم القشیری ممّا لم یورده اختصارا لمعنیً دعا الیه

Other authorities as late as the seventh century are quoted, e.g. Turibishtî (d. A.H. 658).

Well written, the diacritical points often omitted. Marginal notes of later date. The beginning is injured, there is a defect after fol. 31, and the end is wanting. Soiled.

Cat. 223, viii. 1 (?).