Philosophy [IO Islamic 1712]

<ul> <li><strong>Philosophy.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1712&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. 501 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>501.</p> <p>1712. Size 8^1/4 in. by 5 in.; foll 250. Nineteen lines in a page.</p> <p>Annotations on the preceding Commentary of <em>M&icirc;rak</em>, and on its حواشي, by MUHAMMAD H&Acirc;SHIM Hasan&icirc;, a physician. They are entitled كشف الغين عن شرح حكمة العين.</p> <p>The Long Preface begins: حمدا لمن شد بحکمته متون العلماء و شرح بفضله صدور الفضلاء. . The author states in it that he compiled these annotations only for private use, not for publication. He made use of the glosses (التعليقات) of <em>Mas&rsquo;&ucirc;d</em> <em>Sharw&acirc;n&icirc;</em>,² while he usually took no notice of the popular glosses of الفاضل الشيرازی (probably Ḳuṭb al-d&icirc;n, see no.498). The preface concludes with a long invocation of &lsquo;Al&icirc;.</p> <p>These annotations end with the first book (مقالة) of the حكمة العين. The passages commented on are introduced by قال or قوله.</p> <p>Well Written. Coloured lines round the pages.</p> <p>Seals of Muhammad Khidr Kh&acirc;n and Faiḍ &lsquo;Ali Khan (A.H. 1174).</p> <p>[Tippu.]</p> <p>² Not Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z&icirc;, as Ḥ. Kh. iii. 103 has. He died A.H. 905. See no.448.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>