Scholastic Theology [IO Islamic 1839] الشَرْح الجَدیدُ

• Scholastic Theology.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1839 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 414 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

414.

1839. Size 8^3/4 in. by 5^1/2 in.; foll. 305. Nineteen and eighteen lines in a page.

The first part of the same work, consisting of three separate portions.

1. Foll. 1-136. Chapter (مقصد) I., without the preface. Written in Nasta’liḳ. According to the Persian colophon, it was transcribed from a bad copy in eight days between 10^th Dhû-alḥijjah, 1063, and 1^st Muḥarram, 1064, by Muḥammad Mu’min Khalîl.

It was, however, collated subsequently with a copy which had been revised by the author.

1. Foll. 136v.-213. The first four sections of Chapter (مقصد) II. Transcribed, “in haste,” by the same hand as the preceding, Dated 5^th Rabî’I., 1063. Collated with the aforesaid copy. Marginal notes, chiefly taken from the glosses of Ṣadr al-dîn.¹

Foll. 147-150 are misplaced. Two leaves are missing after fol. 200.

1. Foll. 214-305. The remaining portion of Chapter II. A separate volume, written in Nasta’liḳ, by ‘Abdallah Mashhadî, at Shâhjahânâbâd. Date, 4^th Rabî’II., 1062. Emendations on the margin.

[Hastings.]

¹ See below, no. 424.