Volume 2

Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For other copies see Ahlwardt 3272, Cureton-Rieu 886°. Printed with Turkish commentary at Constantinople in 1256/1840. Hak 1 1257 Foll. 380; 94x 5#in.; ll. 19; clear, thick, inelegant, partly vocalised naskhi; rubrications; some marginal notes; badly worm-eaten; margins damaged and crumbling; collated; lacunae after fol. 192 and fol. 363; 17th century. [DELHI 1813] 0 ‘Awarif al-ma ‘arif. A defective copy of the well-known en- cyclopaedia of Sufi theology, by Shihab al-Din Abi Hafs ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Suhrawardi, who died in 632/1234 (see Nafahat al-uns 544-6; Encyclopaedia of 75/272 111 506). The original of which this is a copy was in the hand of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Khawafi,! whose colophon runs (fol. 3794-3802): وقحس فرغ العبى... ابو بكر بن محمى بن محمد [szc]‏ المدعو بزين الخوافىة2 po... [ste]‏ كتابته بعون الله وتابيده. .فى x=)! eo)‏ سئه خكمس eens‏ A note dated 4 Jumada 1 1166/1753 at- tests collation. Beginning: a ERE Bee YS 20 ak a 30-0 القوى سلطانه الظاهر‎ als الحمس لله العظيم‎ ىَ اف جار )99,000 وبرهانه الح For a full description of the work see Ahlwardt 111 20-1. End: x73 od اد و‎ wey! us? ويوضع له القيول‎ elon! اهل‎ Antena وبالله العصمة والتوفيق والحمى AU‏ وحده وصلوته على سيدنا محمد واله الطيبين الطاهرين noe 34 م‎ ae - 0 DAS احدانه الياهر‎ * A well-known Sifi, author of الوصايا القدىسية‎ and other works, who died in 838/1435 (see Ahlwardt 111 QI, 189; Brockelmann 11 206). This colophon must therefore refer to the year 825/1422. * For this incorrect form cf. Ahlwardt 111 189. His name was Zain al-Din. VOL i Five verses by al-Khawafi follow, pre- ceding his colophon. For other copies see Ahlwardt 2845-7, Bankipore 860-2, Loth 625-7, etc. The work was printed at Cairo in 1289/1872 on the margin of al-Ghazali’s .ا<ياء علوم الدين‎ Hie Khairy 6/01: 1258 Foll.” 390; 94x64 in.; Il 22; inelegant but clear nasta‘liq; rubrications; some marginal notes; terribly worm-eaten; margins damaged and repaired; 17th century. | DELHI 1868] Sharh ‘Awarif al-ma Grif. A detailed commentary on the preceding work, by ‘Abd al-Quddis ibn Isma‘il al- Ghaznawi, a celebrated Indian Sufi, who died in 945/1538—9 (see Tadhkirah t ‘ulama 1 Hind 130). The author 2 (fol. 14) that this commentary was written in the year 923/1517 at the request of cer- tain of his friends, particularly Ahmad al- Multani. For Persian works by this same author see Edwards, Ca¢alogue of Persian Books. ... 22, Ethé, Catalogue of Persian MSS. in the India Office 1042, 1076. Beginning: لله الذي جعل معارف البدى. عوارف‎ poet العارفين...اما بعس ذفان الفقير...عبى القدوس بن‎ اسماعيل بن صفى بن نصير الحنفى الغزنوى ثم‎ الاودهى ... شرع ...فى التاليف [52] المعارف فى شرح‎ العوارف الخ‎ The commentary proper begins: التوفيق‎ ally قلت‎ CS als اندي لله العظير‎ اللام للاستغراق الخ‎ This copy is not complete, some folios having been lost at the end. The com- mentary 1s continuous with the text; the 62nd chapter (فى شرم كلمات)‎ begins on fol. 363a@, and this is the last heading in this copy.
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