Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Arabic MS 247 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Arabic Manuscripts

Contents

A commentary on Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah of al-Abharī

Title: كفاية الحكمة
Title: Sufficiency of Philosophy
Incipit: تقدس كبرياء جاعل الحقائق وتكبر جلال خالق الخلائق ... وبعد يقول احوج افراد نوع الانسان عبيد الله ترخان لا زالت مآثره عن حوادث الدهر مصونة ... عازما على ان اسميه بعد اتمامه بكفاية الحكمة
Explicit: ليس عذابهم دائميا بل يزول بزوال تلك الهيئات شيئا فشيئا. اللهم خاتمة امورنا خيرا ولا تلحق بنا من تبعة شرورنا ضيرا
Colophon: قد استرحت من كد الانتهاض بنقل هذا الشرح من السواد الى البياض فى السابع عشر من شهر جمادى الاخره سنة الف ومائة واربعين من الهجرة النبوية وكان شروعه فى غرة الشهر المذكور من تلك السنة ووقع ذلك ببلدة دهلي ولي يومئد من العمر احدى وعشرين سنة والمامول من روساء الفضلاء وكبراء العلماء ان يصححوا مواضع الفتور والخلل الخ
Language(s): Arabic

References

Catalogue no. Arabic MS 415 [247]

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Paper
Extent: 150 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 233 × 150 mm.

Layout

1 column, 11 written lines

Hand(s)

Naskh

History

Origin: 1140 AH (1727 CE)

Provenance and Acquisition

From the collection of Colonel George William Hamilton (1807-1868) who served in India from 1823 to 1867 latterly as Commissioner in Delhi. He acquired over a thousand Indian and Persian manuscripts of which 352 were selected after his death for the British Museum. The remainder were purchased in 1868 by Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford.

Purchased by Enriqueta Rylands in 1901 from James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, for the John Rylands Library.

Record Sources

Catalogue information compiled by Abdullah al-Rashidi from Alphonse Mingana, Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University Press, 1934.

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