A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson.

Edward Granville Browne

Date:: 1932

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental mss. belonging to the late E. G. Browne / by Edward G. Browne, completed & edited with a memoir of the author and a bibliography of his writings by Reynold A. Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$5 B. SUNNf THEOLOGY, ETC. B. I (9). 0 Al-Maqsadtt l-Asnd [not -Aqsd, as written in the colophon of f. 85’] /{ Ma'dni Asmdi''lldhVl-Husnd (“the Ultimate Goal, on the Meanings of the Most Comely Names of God”), by Abu Hdmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (b. 451/ 1059, d. 505/1 in). See Brockelmann’s Gesch. d. Arab. Litt., vol. i, p. 421, No. 5; and Ahlwardt’s Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. ii, pp. 500—501 (Nos. 2219-2220). Ff. 86 of 20*8 X 15 c. and 17 11.; clear but ungraceful nastadiq with rubrications; transcription completed on Safar 19, 973 (Sept. 15, 1565). This is one of the MSS. collected by the late Hdjji ‘Abdu’l-Majid Belshah which fell to my share in the fourth partition of the same at the British Museum on Nov. 12, 1920. B. 2 (9). juL^ The ^Aqdid (“ Beliefs” or “ Doctrines”) of Abu Hafs Najmu’d-Dm ‘Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad an-Nasafi (b. 460/1068, d. 537/1142). See Brockelmann, vol. I, p. 427, No. I; and Ahlwardt’s Berlin Arabic Catalogue, vol. ii, p. 404, Nos. 1953-4. This well-known work occupies ff. i'—97^ of the MS., and is followed (on ff. 98'’—1:21^) by a similar but anonymous work, bearing the ungrammatical title in red—I think that this MS. was one of several brought back from Russia (Kazan) by Dr Ellis H. Minns. Ff. 121 of 21'2 X 16*2 c. and 15 11.; fair nastaHiq written within margins ruled in red, and transcribed, the first part in 1246/1830 and the second in a.d. 1827, by Khalaf ibn Sulaymdn al-Marjdni, evidently somewhere in Turkistan or Asiatic Russia. (3^ lijJl _ A (3^ ojLisJI The Ramzu l-Haqdiq, a commentary by Badru’d-Dfn Mahmud al-‘Aynf (d. 855/1451) on the Kanzu l-Haqdiq of Hdfizu’d-Din Abu’l-Barakdt ‘Abdu’lldh$