Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Delhi Persian 791 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Works on logic, 2 items (a-b)

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of commentaries on logic by al-Isfara’ini. Volume not dated; datable to the early sixteenth century. Early scribal nastaʿlīq. Limited annotations in margins. Intermittent foliation in pencil. Lacking original binding. Paper dust wrapper (BEIC legal publication on Regulation XXXVIII of 1850, published Calcutta 1850, Bengal Military Orphan Press, by J. C. Sherriff); watermarked (T. H. Saunders & Co.; not dated); label, torn and stained. Condition fragile.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

1. ff. 1v-62v
Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Delhi Persian 791 a.

Substantial fragment of an untitled Persian commentary, conventionally known as Sharḥ al-Risālat al-kubrá fī al-manṭiq, written by ʿIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArab Shāh Isfarāʾinī (d. 945/1538) on the larger of two treatises on logic, conventionally known as the Risālat al-kubrá, by Sayyid ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816/1413).

Lacunae after folios 9, 33, 35, and 51.

Defective at end.

Not dated at end; datable to the early sixteenth century.

2. ff. 63v-66r

Delhi Persian 791 b.

Untitled Persian commentary, conventionally known as Sharḥ al-Risālat al-ṣughrá fī al-manṭiq, written by ʿIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿArab Shāh Isfarāʾinī (d. 945/1538) on the smaller of two treatises on logic, conventionally known as the Risālat al-ṣughrá, by Sayyid ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (d. 816/1413).

Not dated at end; datable to the early sixteenth century.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 66 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 192 × 131 mm.

Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1500 - 1550 CE ; India or Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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