Philosophy [IO Bijapur 242]

Philosophy.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 242 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 523 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

523.

B 242. Size 83/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 123. Mostly twenty-nine lines in a page.

A Commentary on the first part, or Logic of Sirâj al-dîn Abu’l-thanâ Mahmûd b. Abu Bakr Urmawî’s (d. A.H. 682) مطالع الانوار . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 595 sqq.; Casiri, i. 200 sqq., and Cat. Bodl. ii., no. ccxci. 7. It is wrongly ascribed here to Molla Ḳuṭb al-dîn (the author of the following work). The real author is not ascertained.

The text and commentary are distinguished by قال and اقول , and the former is fully given in the earlier portion. There is no preface to this commentary. It begins :قال مولانا الشيخ ملك الائمة العالم العلامة سراج الملة والدين منهاج الاسلام و المسلمين ابو الثناء محمود ابن ابي بكر الارموي طاب ثراه اللهم انا نحمدك ... 1اقول الحمد هو الثناء الخ.

The earlier portion of this MS. is written in an inelegant small Nasta’lîk, and the remainder (from fol. 58) in a neat Naskh, mostly without diacritical points. At the end we find the following date:تم الكتاب في رجب المرجب سنة ست و ثلثين و سبعمائة.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1059, from Mustafa Khân. Seals of the latter, ‘Atâ Allah, and Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh.

Cat. 226, xvi. 4(?); cf. 236, viii.

1 Here follows the whole of Urmawî’s preface.