Abstract

Philosophy. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1620 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,, no. 502 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 502. 1620. Size 63/4 in. by 33/4 in.; foll.19. Thirteen lines in a page. The celebrated treatise on Logic by Najm al-dîn ‘Alî b. ‘Omar KÂTIBÎ ḲAZWÎNÎ. It is entitled الرسالة الشمسية, from its being dedicated to the Wazîr Shams al-dîn Muḥammad Juwainî. Cf. H. Kh. iv. 76; Cat. St. Petersb. 63; Cat. Lugd. iii. 369; and the edition of Dr. Sprenger, Calcutta,1854. Well written, of the beginning of the twelfth century. The preface is omitted. Begins: ورتبته علی مقدمة الخ. A defect after fol.17. Fol.18 belongs to a Persian treatise on the same subject. Signature of ‘Abdallah b. Muḥammad Mîrak b.’Abd al-ḥamîd. And seal of Amânat-dâr khân1. This MS. was originally part of a larger volume. [.Gaikwar] 1 Possibly the same person.