Volume 2

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

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    reat (0 O Bae [ الحمى لله هو اظبار كمال‎ ك١ فرقا‎ of A أنه‎ End: ات‎ ie aun وهو يبدى السبيل اليه وينصب الدليل عليه لقد وفق للفراغ من فك ختام هذه الفصوص وكشف ابيام هذه الفصوص عبى الرحمن بن Dom!‏ الجامى الله 3 For other copies see Ahlwardt 2883, Bankipore 879 (autograph), 880, Loth 647-8, etc. fe Khe 18 9073. 1278 Polesi2oo. x5. 1n.; ll. 21; legible nasta‘liq; rubrications; the text over-ruled in red; worm- eaten; some margins mended; copyist, Badi‘ al-Din al-Qaniiji; dated, 12 Ramadan 1140/1728. [| DELHI 1787] جوامع Bes” 2 risa‏ فصوص الحكم Jawami‘ al-kalam fi kashf 5 al-hikam. A commentary on Ibn _ [al-]‘Arabi’s قصوص الحكم‎ by ‘Ali Asghar al-Oantyji (b. 1051/1641, see Zadhkirah i ‘ulama i Hind 141-2, where this commentary is men- tioned), composed in the year 1138/1726 (see fol. 18). This commentary is far from ample, and is little more than notes indicating the general lines of [bn [al-|‘Arabi’s doctrines. Beginning: الحمى لله الظاهر بانوار تجلياته الوجودية فى مواطن الاكوان. . . وبعس فبينا انا Ady ONS‏ كانت عيني مسرح سرح ا/[...] والليل...وذلك كان في العشرة الاخيرة من الصفر سنة ثمان وثلثهين وماية والف cee‏ البجرة ,اذ اريت جياعة 005 ةا قدسية . . . وبين SUS yds‏ فصوص الحكم...وما تركدت نفسي ان تشمغل بما سواه...فجاء Door‏ 125 بجوامع الكلم في كشف فصوص الحكم الخ The commentary proper begins on 101. DMG etree al eae)! الحيد الله اطلى‎ واضافة لطريق الاختصاص الى رسم الذات الاحدية الخ The division of the work into قصوص‎ is preserved, the commentator prefixing to each Ves a short summary of its contents and theosophical purport. End: فافيم ally‏ يقول الحق بلسان العبد وهو يبدى السبيل Colophon: pro) من .. مولانا الاعظم يعنى على‎ تصديف : مولدا والبكرى Irate‏ وكان سنة ماية الف واربعين من هجرة نبينا محمد صلعم ذى التاريح ثانى عشر No other copy appears to be recorded. 1279 Foll. 234; 84 x 4% in.; 11. 18 and 17; two nasta‘liq hands, the first (to fol. 102) neat and regular but on old crumbling paper, the second legible and somewhat morerecent; many leaves fragmentary, especially at the beginning, restoration being im- possible; first half badly worm-eaten; collated; 17th and 18th century. [DELHI 1773] Alcala Anfas al-khawass. A commentary on an abridgement of قصوص الحكم‎ made by the commentator him- self, Muhibb Allah [lahabadi (d. 1058/ 1648, see Tadhkirah i ‘ulama i Hind 175, Bankipore Catalogue x11 69). The com- mentary is divided into 80 (according to the Bankipore Catalogue 81) sections called Pet
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