DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6229427
title: Miscellanies [IO Bijapur 450]

description: Miscellanies.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 450 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1040 here with notations and hyperlinks].


1040.

B 450. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 75. Number of lines varying.

I. Foll. 1-3. ‘ABD AL-GHAFÛR LÂRÎ’S (d. A.H. 912) Glosses on Jâmî’s preface to his Commentary on the Kâfiyah (see no. 928).

Well written. Framed with red lines.

II. Foll. 5-12. Glosses on the passage of Jâmî’s Commentary which treats of the “specification” التمییز, by MUḤAMMAD KÂSHIF.

Begins:

ان احسن ما یتمسک به فی الوصول الی ذروة الکمال الخ

Clearly written in Nasta’lîḳ.

III. Foll. 13-14. Two short treatises on Existence, identical with no. 586, V. and VI.

Written in a minute character.

IV. Fol.15r. A note on Apprehension, التصورات, by JALÂL AL-DÎN DAWWÂNÎ (d. A.H. 907), identical with that described in Cat. Lugd. iii. 380.

V. Fol. 15v. A note on Necessity, beginning:

 اعلم ان الضرورة هی استحالة انفکاک نسبة المحمول الی الموضوع الخ

Incomplete.

VI. Foll. 16-18. Notes on a passage of Saiyid Sharîf Jurjânî’s Glosses on Ḳuṭb-aldîn’s Commentary on the Shamsîyah, identical with no. 585, II. They are ascribed here to ḤANAFÎ (مولانا حنفی).

At the end is a note, beginning کل مدع ثابت ascribed to مولانا احمد جند, i.e. AḤMAD JANDÎ?

VII. Foll. 19-22. A short logical treatise, proving the necessary to be only one. According to the inscription, هذه رسالة لطیفة مجموعة لطفیة (!) معنی وحدة الواجب و ادلته و بعض المغالطات, the author seems to be Molla LUṬFÎ (d. A.H. 900).

VIII. Fol. 23. A definition of knowledge, beginning:

 العلم صفة توجب تمیزا لا یحتمل النقیض الخ

Incomplete.

IX. Fol. 24. A note on the Unity of God, beginning:

 قد تقرر فی علم الکلام ان المقصد الاقصی و المطلب الاعلی توحید الحق سبحانه الخ

Incomplete.

X. Foll. 25v.-26. Glosses on a definition of knowledge, ending abruptly.

XI. Foll. 26v.-27. A note on the square-root (الجذر); written diagonally.

XII. Foll. 27v.-36. A theosophic treatise on the Unity of God, by DAWWÂNÎ.

Begins:

الحمد لمن تفرد ...و بعد فهذه مباحث متعلقة بکلمة التوحید

Conclusion:

 تمت الرسالة المنسوبة الی العامة (العلامة .r) الدوانی فی تحقیق کلمة التوحید

It is followed (fol. 29v.) by Glosses on it, beginning:

الخ قوله من الامور العامة

XIII. Foll. 37-52. The latter portion of DAWWÂNÎ’S second treatise on the Divine Essence, رسالة اثبات واجب الوجود الجدید (!). See no. 468, II.

Begins:

 الفصل الثالث فی توحیده

Copied by ‘Abd al-raḥmân b, Yâdkâr Muḥammad اوراسامی (?).

XIV. Foll. 55-75. Explanation of various idiomatic expressions, verses, etc., occurring in Jâmî’s Commentary on the Kâfiyah [ed. note =  الفوائد الضيائية مخطوطة]. The author, who does not give his name, is, according to the inscription of the title-page, SHAMS AL-DÎN MUḤAMMAD ḲUHISTÂNÎ.1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vi. 83. The work is dated A.H. 952 [=1545-56 CE]. The author wrote it in Transoxania.

Begins: الحمدلله الذی رزقنا من العربیة رزقا کاملا الخ

Marginal notes. Copied by Muḥammad شبرغانی, A.H. 996.

 

1 قوه الستانی (sic).

[Bijapur Collection]
description: ed note: in a modern binding; no seals
description: IV: see notes to XIII.

VII: Mollā Luṭfī (d. AH 900/1495 CE) was an Ottoman scholar, poet, librarian and an intimate companion of Sultan Mehmed II, see Atçil,"Molla Lutfi," Enc. Islam THREE, s.v. https://doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_36513

XII: See notes to XII. 

XIII: Muḥammad ibn Asʻad Dawwānī [جلال الدين الدواني], thought to have died 1502 or 1512-13.

Quick link to a biography in English.

Quick link to works connected to Dawwānī.

On his influence outside Fars: Bdaiwi, Ahab. "II. Philosophia Ottomanica: Jalal al-Din Davani on Establishing the Existence of the Necessary Being". The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities, edited by Hani Khafipour, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2018, pp. 319-335. https://doi.org/10.7312/khaf17436-030

XIV: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Khurāsānī Quhistānī [شمس الدين محمد القھستانى] is know from جامع الرموز (Jāmi‘ al-rumūz), a complete commentary on the Wiqāyat al-Hidāyah of ‘Ubayd-Allāh b. Maḥmūd b. Maḥmūd al-Maḥbūbī, a copy in the University of Edinburgh Or Ms 159. The manuscript is from James Anderson (1758-1833). Quhistānī's death date is given as AH 963 according to the Chughtai Public Library.

Quick link to a fifteenth-century manuscript copy of al-Fawāʼid al-Ḍiyāʼīyah by Jāmī (1414-1492) on the Kāfiyah of Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, (1175-1249), with glosses of ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīn, once in the collection of Jacobus Golius.