Philosophy [IO Islamic 423]

• Philosophy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 423 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 478 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

478.

423. Size 9^1/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 154. Twenty-three lines in a page.

شرح عیون الحکمة

The Commentary of FAKHR AL-DÎN RÂZÎ (Muḥammad b. ‘Omar, d. A.H. 606) on the second and third parts of Ibn Sînâ’s (d. A.H. 428) عیون الحکمة, on Physics and Metaphysics. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 290, and especially regarding the first part, omitted in this MS. Flügel, Hdss. Wien, ii. 600. Extracts from this work have been given by Haneberg in Abhandle. d. baier. Akad. xi. 250-267.

Beginning: الطبیعیات و هی مرتبة علی فصول الفصل الاول فی تقسیم العلوم و فیه مسائل المسئَلة الاولی فی تفسیر الحکمة قال الشیخ الحکمة استکمال النفس الانسانیة الخ.

The remaining fourteen sections of this part are inscribed as follows: II. (fol. 5v.) فی المصادرات التی یجب تقدیمها علی العلم الطبیعی; III. (fol. 16v.) فی تناهی الابعاد; IV. (fol. 23) فی بیان ان الجهات لا تتحدد الا بالمحیط و المرکز; V. (fol. 26) فی احکام الاجسام البسیطة; VI. (fol. 29) فی نفی الخلاء; VII. (fol. 36) فی نفی الجوهر الفرد; VIII. (fol. 43v.) فی الزمان; IX. (fol. 56v.) فی احوال الحرکات; X. (fol. 67v.) فی مسائل السماء و العالم; XI. (fol. 73v.) فی الاثار العلویة; XII. (fol. 80v.) فی النبات; XIII. (fol. 81v.) فی الحیوان; XIV. (fol. 91v.) فی الحواس الباطنة; XV. (fol. 96)فی القوی المحرکة الحیوانیة; XVI. (fol. 100v.) فی الانسان.

The third part, الالهیات (foll. 113-154), comprises nine فصل, as follows: I. without title; II. (fol. 118v.) فی احکام الهیولی و الصورة; III. (fol. 124( فی اثبات القوی; IV. (fol. 127v.) فی احکام العلل و المعلولات; V. (fol. 130) فی الموجود و بیان انقسامه الی الجوهر و العرض; VI. (fol. 134v.) فی مباحث الممکن و الواجب; VII. (fol. 137) فی الکلی و الجزئی; VIII. (fol. 141); IX. (fol. 150) فی تقریر المعاد الروحانی.

Very well written, probably by (or for) Abu’l-fatḥ b. ‘Abd al-razzâḳ, whose seal is at the end of the MS. Of the end of the tenth century.

Foll. 15 and 24 should be transposed. Foll. 64-85 should stand in the following order: 64, 74, 66-73, 65, 84, 76-83, 75, 85. Injured by insects.

This MS. Was bought at Shâhjahânâbâd, by Muḥammad Hâdi Ḥusainî, a “servant” (مرید) of Aurangzîb, for the use of his son Muḥammad Ibrâhîm, A.H. 1089.