Philosophy [IO Islamic 965]

• Philosophy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 965 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 495 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

495.

965. Size 6^3/4 in. by 3^1/4 in.; foll. 236. Twenty-one lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-140. Two Persian treatises on Astronomy.

II. Foll. 143-230. Another copy of MAULÂNÂZÂDAH’S Commentary on the Hidâyah, with glosses.

Very neatly written. Of the end of the ninth century.

The remaining pages are filled various extracts, in the same hand, viz. :-

Foll. 231-232. An extract from the شرح العين ’ ¹ on the halo and the rainbow.

Fol.233. A short extract from the شرح المواقف

Foll. 233v.-234. هذه رسالة من كلام سلطان العارفين ابو (!) يزيد البسطامی قدس سرّه

The relation of a vision of ABU YAZÎD BISṬÂMÎ.

Begins: نظرت الى ربّى بعين اليقين

The Lower part of fol. 233 is destroyed.

Fol. 235 An extract from an unknown work, on cause and effect.

[Johnson.]

¹ Probably a commentary on Ḳazwînî’s عین القواعد ; see Ḥ. Kh, iv.283.