Philosophy [IO Islamic 1420]

<ul> <li><strong>Philosophy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1420&nbsp;</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. 480 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/132/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>480</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 175, 176. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 251. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>Another Commentary (by قوله ) on <em>Ibn S&icirc;n&acirc;&rsquo;s</em> الاشارات و التنبیهات , by NAṢ&Icirc;R AL-D&Icirc;N Ṭ&Ucirc;S&Icirc; (d. A.H. 672). It was composed A.H. 644, and entitled حل مشکلات الاشارات. See Ḥ. Kh. i. 302; Cat. Lugd. iii. 321; and <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6827074">Cat. St. Petersb.</a> 60.</p> <p>This work is dedicated to a patron, who is styled المجلس الرفیع ربیب الدولة و شهاب الملة قدوة الحکماء و الاطبّاء سیّد الاکابر و الفضلاء. It is partly written in refutation of the critics of R&acirc;z&icirc;, who is here called الفاضل الشارح. It begins: صدر الکتاب قول الشیخ رحمه الله احمد الله علی حسن توفیقه و اسأله هدایة طریقه و الهام الحقّ بتحقیقه افاد الفاضل الشارح ان هذه المعانی الخ.</p> <p>The present copy consists of three separate volumes. Vol. I. (foll. 1-87) contains the first part, on Logic. II. (foll. 88-163) gives the first three انماط of the second part, on Physics. It begins: قال الشیخ هذه اشارات الی اصول و تنبیهات علی جُمَلٍ الخ. III. (foll. 164-251) contains the remaining seven انماط, on Metaphysics, but is slightly imperfect at the end.</p> <p>Carefully written in three hands. Of the eighth or ninth century. Vols. II. and III. are revised throughout. The following note is at the end of Vol. I.: وقفتُ و ظفرتُ بکتاب کتبت (!) فی سنة خمس و ثمانین و ستمائة لکن ما اتفقت المقابلة و التصحیح من کثرة الاشغال و قلة حضور البال اللهم حقق اسرارنا بحقائق الوصال.....کتبه صغیر الدین محمد الطبیب الکیلانی فی قریة الطائف حما عنه (!) فی سنة ٩٨٥.</p> <p>Injured by insects.</p> <p>This MS. Belonged to Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m &lsquo;&Acirc;dil Sh&acirc;h II. (Nauras).</p> <p>Cat. 226, xxv.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>