Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

some places by the Baukipore manuscript
text seemed to be more correct.
where this latter
A few grammatical and orthographical
remarks about
the Fatih MS. 1 may be added. Sometimes the comparative is
used for the superlative- e.y. j^^ for .In
tfj^+tf
such cases
we have retained the comparative form in the text, translating
it, however, by the superlative. The copyist does not differentiate
between o and i and d and S] he also generally makes
no distinction between ^ and ^ and ^ and .
The
wadda above
rt///'is never given, but ztibar is sometimes and that very rarely
given instead. in
compound words is always written
without the final
, e.g. t*>ljT
is found.
The second manuscript, extant in Bankipore No. 2203,
fol. lb -8b (Of. Suppl. Cat, p. 135) is a fairly modern copy but
contains better readings sometimes. In the colophon, dated
the scribe Imdad
Tuesday the nth Dim '1-Hijja 1238 A. H.,
4
All says that lie transcribed the copy by
the order of Nawwab
Nur-ul-IIasan Khan Bahadur.
The colophon runs thus:
J. This MS. of mixed contents contain** among others al-Ghaz&ll's
hamaqat ahl al-ibuhat which has meanwhile been edited and translated
by O Hretzl, DieStreitschrift