Rhetoric [IO Islamic 148]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 148 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 857 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 857. 148. Size 123/4 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 503. Seventeen lines in a page. An elegant copy of the same work. Boldly written in Nasta’liḳ. Has the following colophon: تمت كتاب مطول اكتبه بامر خواجه بابا داروغه داغ تصحيحه شهر معظم احمداباد طول الله عمره وزاد دولة راقمة فقير حقير خانزاد فدوى نصرالله تاريخ ۱۷ شهر جماد الاول سنه ١۱۱٩. The beginning is ornamented. The other pages are within gold and red lines, and have a double space for glosses, which have been added in several places, invariably from the Ḥâshiyah of JURJÂNÎ. Foll. 293-296 should be placed after fol. 288.