Philosophy [IO Islamic 1796] فنّ الطبیعیات

• Philosophy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1796 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 476 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

476.

1796. Size 11^1/4 in. by 6^3/4 in.; foll. 313. Thirty lines in a page.

هذا فنّ الطبیعیات المنسوب الی معلّم الثالث الخ

The second part of the preceding work, on Physics. The eight فنّ of this part are: 1. فی السماع الطبیعی; 2. (fol. 94v.) فی صناعة الطبیعیات; 3. (fol. 109v.) فی الکون و الفساد; 4. (fol. 133) فی الفعل و الانفعال; 5. (fol. 144v.) فی الآثار العلویة; 6. (fol. 161v.) کتاب النفس; 7. (fol. 214) فی النبات; 8. (fol. 222) فی طبائع الحیوان.

Like the preceding MS.; the colophon gives the same names of the transcriber (adding the surname الآردی), and of his employer. Dated Kashmîr, Sha’bân, 1150.

Foll. 24-31 are to be placed in the following order: 24, 27, 25, 26, 29, 30, 28, 31. Slightly injured by insects.

Bound in green leather, with gold ornaments.

[Johnson.]