Encyclopedia [IO Islamic 1622] النقایة, fragment of

Encyclopedia. النقایة

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1622 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 1029 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1029.

1622. Size 9 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 50. Eight lines in a page.

A fragment of an encyclopedic treatise on the Muḥammadan Sciences, which, from the headings, appears to be SUYÛṬÎ’S (d. A.H. 911) النقایة. See regarding this work, Ḥ. Kh. vi. 372; Cat. Mus. Brit. 213 [ed note:= CCCCXXXII, p. 213; Add. 7523 Rich]; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 22.

Well written, but damaged and in disorder. Both the beginning and end are wanting. Foll. 1-7 are really the last of this fragment, and fol. 8 begins in what would be the first paragraph of the treatise. The last leaf gives the conclusion of a Persian tract.

[Johnson.]