MS. Ind. Inst. Arab. 20 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Summary of Contents: 18 works by 10 authors on the subjects of Philosophy, Koran, Aphorisms and apothegms, Mysticism, and Logic
1. ff. 34r-39v
Author: Fārābī
Title: Taʻlīqāt
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 212
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (3)]
2. f. 40r, v
Author: Ḥārithī, Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd al-Ṣamad, 1512-1576
Title: Tamhīd radd al-waswās

Said to be an extract from his al-ʻAqd al-ṭahmās (?)

*where the ref. Suppl. ii. 575 should read Suppl. ii. 595

**Father of ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (4)]*
3. f. 41r
Author: ʻĀmilī, Bahāʼ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621
Title: Fī sajadāt al-Qurʼān

f. 41v contains a note "on the number of the prophets" by ? Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Makkī al-ʻĀmilī, called al-Shahīd al-Awwal [Beeston Pers. 2830 (6)]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 414, 415
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (5)]
4. ff. 42r-53r
Author: Plato
Title: Arabic apothegms

ff. 53r-55r contain various short notes in Arabic and Persian [Beeston Pers. 2830 (8)]

Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Ethics
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (7)]
5. ff. 56v-59r
Author: Ibn al-ʻArabī, 1165-1240
Title: Kitāb al-Ajwibah
Title: Kitāb al-Alif

Ascribed also to Suyūṭī, 1445-1505 and others

*where for GAL ii. 798 read GAL Suppl. i. 798 f. 59v contains brief notes in Arabic [Beeston Pers. 2830 (11) [part]]

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 446
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (10)]*
6. ff. 60r-63r
Author: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1641 ملا صدرا شيرازى
Title: al-Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Tamām al-mushtarik fī sharḥ al-Shamsīyah al-Quṭbīyah

Extract only

folld., on the rest of f. 63r and 63v by shorter extracts from the same author

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (12)]
7. ff. 64r-65v
Author: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1641 ملا صدرا شيرازى
Title: Mafātīḥ al-ghayb

Miftāḥ 14 only

f. 66r is blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (13)]
8. ff. 66v-67r
Author: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1641 ملا صدرا شيرازى
Title: Three extracts in Arabic
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (14)]
9. ff. 67v-75v
Author: Ṣadr al-Dīn Shīrāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, d. 1641 ملا صدرا شيرازى
Title: Notes on the tafsīr of sūrah lxxxvii [ sūrat al-Aʻlá ]
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (15)]
10. f. 76r
Author: Plato
Title: Short sayings attributed to Plato, Aristotle etc.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Ethics
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (16)]
11. ff. 76v-85r
Author: Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81 محسن فيض، محمد ابن مرتضى
Title: Mirʼāt al-ākhirah

In 4 chapters

*who, in finding "no other mention of this work", seems to have overlooked the entry in Brock.

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (17)]*
12. f. 85r
Author: Plato
Title: Short sayings.
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Ethics
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (18)]
13. ff. 85r-86r
Author: Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81 محسن فيض، محمد ابن مرتضى
Title: Ḍiyāʼ al-qalb (qulūb)

Extract only, fī bayān al-ḥikām al-khamsah

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (19)]
14. ff. 86r-91r
Author: Fayḍ al-Kāshī, Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍá, 1598 or 9-1680 or 81 محسن فيض، محمد ابن مرتضى
Title: al-Laʼālī

Arabic and Persian extracts only

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 413
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (20)]
15. f. 91v
Author: Fārābī
Title: Short sentences from his works
Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 211-213
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (21) [part]]
16. ff. 93r-94r
Author: Anonymous
Title: Extracts taken from a work entitled al-Asʼilah wa-al-ajwibat al-mahdīyah wa-al-ʻallāmīyah, and from elsewhere
Language(s): Arabic

References

Appendix Theology
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (23)]
17. ff. 94v-103r
Author: Ghazzālī, 1058-1111
Title: al-Maḍnūn bihi ʻalá ghayr ahlihi

*Brock. ʻan ff. 103v and 104r are blank

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 425
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (24)]
18. ff. 104v-130v
Author: Avicenna, 980-1037
Title: al-Risālat al-manāmīyah*

*lacks title, but incipit corresponds to the B. M. copy of this work (see Cureton and Rieu 978 (44))

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL I 456
[Beeston Pers. 2830 (25)]

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