Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2291]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2291 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 826 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

826.

2291. Size 9 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 205. Twenty-five lines in a page.

Foll. 1-186. Another copy of the same Commentary.

The complete text of the Ḳaṣîdah is added on the margin. Emendations and various glosses.

Foll. 187-194. A long poem in praise of Muḥammad, beginning:

اثغور منها الصباحُ اضآءَ

Foll. 195 and 196. تخميس of a Ḳaṣîdah of Saiyid Ḥusain .. السيد الشريف حسين بن الصديق الاهدل , by the author of the preceding poem.

The Ḳaṣîdah begins: يا رسول الله غوثا و مدد .

Foll. 197v. and 198. A short Ḳaṣîdah, beginning:

بسيف الححا (sic) عند اشتداد النوائب.

It is followed by various notes.

Well written in a small hand. An ornament at the beginning. Coloured lines round the pages.

Foll. 198-204. A short account of the sects of Islâm, transcribed from ÎJÎ’S كتاب المواقف . Begins: تذييل الكتاب فى ذكر الفرق الخ . Written in a minute character.

Fol. 205. Explanation of the beginning of Sûrah 95, from the Kashshâf.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]