Philosophy [501]

• Philosophy.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1712 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 501 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

501.

1712. Size 8^1/4 in. by 5 in.; foll 250. Nineteen lines in a page.

Annotations on the preceding Commentary of Mîrak, and on its حواشي, by MUHAMMAD HÂSHIM Hasanî, a physician. They are entitled كشف الغين عن شرح حكمة العين.

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 The author states in it that he compiled these annotations only for private use, not for publication.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 Mas’ûd Sharwânî,² while he usually took no notice of the popular glosses of الفاضل الشيرازی (probably Ḳuṭb al-dîn, see no.498). The preface concludes with a long invocation of ‘Alî.

These annotations end with the first book (مقالة) of the حكمة العين. The passages commented on are introduced by قال or قوله.

Well Written. Coloured lines round the pages.

Seals of Muhammad Khidr Khân and Faiḍ ‘Ali Khan (A.H. 1174).

[Tippu.]

² Not Shîrâzî, as Ḥ. Kh. iii. 103 has. He died A.H. 905. See no.448.