Philosophy [IO Islamic 1811] کتاب الشفاء‎ [parts]

<ul> <li><strong>Philosophy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1811&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. 477&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>477.</p> <p>1811. Size 11^1/4 in. by 6^1/2 in. foll. 286. Thirty lines in a page.</p> <p>I. Foll. 1-264. The remaining portion of the <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5237295">preceding work</a>, written in the same hand, and arranged in the following manner:-¹</p> <p>1. (foll. 1-44) <em>Geometry</em>; without title, but concluding: تم فن الهندسة.</p> <p>2. (foll. 47-131) <em>Astronomy</em>. Concludes: تم فن الهیئة. Then follows the colophon of the original copy, which begins: تم الدفتر التاسع و هو ثانی الریاضیات. This copy had been written by &lsquo;Abd al-ḳaiy&ucirc;m b. al-Ḥusain b. &lsquo;Al&icirc; F&acirc;ris&icirc;, A.H. 642.</p> <p>3. (foll. 134-149) <em>Arithmetic.</em> Begins:</p> <p>الفن الثالث من الجملة الاولی (!) و هو اربع مقالات تم الارثماطیقی الخ</p> <p>4. (foll. 152-174) <em>Music</em>. Begins:</p> <p>الفن الثانی عشر من الریاضیات من کتاب الشفاء و هو فی الموسیقی و قد حان لنا ان نختم الجزء الریاضی من الفلسفة بایراد جوامع علم الموسیقی الخ</p> <p>Fol. 174<em>v</em>. contains an epilogue to this part by the aforesaid Saiyid Muḥammad. Date, A.H. 1152.</p> <p>Each of the preceding parts was copied from &ldquo;an old MS.,&rdquo; and collated with another which had been written at Mauṣil, A.H. 652.</p> <p>5. (foll. 179-264) <em>Metaphysics.</em> Begins:</p> <p>الفن الثالث عشر من کتاب الشفاء فی الالهیات</p> <p>This part concludes also (fol. 264) with an epilogue by Saiyid Muḥammad. It was transcribed from a copy of A.H. 897. The aforesaid Muḥammad Ṣ&acirc;diḳ finished it at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Delhi">Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&acirc;b&acirc;d</a>, on 2^nd Rab&icirc;&rsquo; I., 1154 (فی الثانی من الشهر الثالث من السنة الرابعة بعد العقد الخامس من المائة الثانیة من الالف الثانی من هجرة من لا ثانی له فی الوجود الخ). He concludes with a poem in praise of the work, beginning:</p> <p>تم کتاب هو الجُمانُ وَهْوَ عن الکون ترجمانُ</p> <p>Each of the above parts has an ornament on its first page; the vacant leaves between them are ornamented with gold lines.</p> <p>II. Foll. 266-286. The first part of the author&rsquo;s abridgement of the preceding work, called النجاة, on Logic. This work has been printed at Rome, 1593, as an appendix to Ibn S&icirc;n&acirc;&rsquo;s <em>Ḳ&acirc;n&ucirc;n</em>. Cf.&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka%C5%9Ff_az-Zun%C5%ABn">Ḥ. Kh</a>. vi. 303.</p> <p>Begins: قال الشیخ الرئیس ابوعلی بن (!) الحسین ابن عبدالله بن سینا رحمه الله اما بعد حمد الله و الثناء علیه بما هو اهله و مستحقه الخ.</p> <p>Written in the same hand as the preceding, with gold borders.</p> <p>In an elegant illuminated binding. This MS. And the two preceding are from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucknow">Lakhnau</a>.</p> <p>[<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Johnson</a>.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹The numbering seems to be in confusion, as is also the case with the Leyden MS. (l.c., p. 319).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>