Encyclopedia [IO Bijapur 453]

<ul> <li><strong>Encyclopedia.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 453 </strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 1028&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><strong>ENCYCLOPEDIA</strong>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/284/mode/2up"><strong>1028</strong></a>.</p> <p>B453. Size 7^1/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 12. Twenty-five and twenty-three lines in a page.</p> <p>Foll. 5-12. An encyclopedic treatise, by ḤAB&Icirc;B ALLAH M&Icirc;RZ&Acirc; J&Acirc;N SH&Icirc;R&Acirc;Z&Icirc; (d. A.H. 994), written for a friend named Muḥammad (سمّی حبیب الله صلعم).</p> <p>It gives specimens of nine sciences, with critical remarks on them; viz., 1.البحث الاول من التفسیر; 2. المعانی; 3. البیان; 4. الاصول; 5. الکلام; 6. المنطق; 7. العلم الطبیعی; 8. الالهی; 9. الهیئة.</p> <p>Begins: جل و علا من تحیر عقول العارفین فی کنه جماله.</p> <p>Written in a good Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ hand, but without diacritical points. Long notes on the margin. Dated A.H. 1000.</p> <p>It is preceded by-</p> <p>Foll. 1-4. A Commentary on the verse of the Koran, S&ucirc;, 2, 256; styled in the conclusion الرسالة الشریفة لحضرت حافظ کویکری (!).</p> <p>Begins: الله لا اله الا هوالله اسم عربی الخ.</p> <p>Legibly written.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>