Prosody [IO Islamic 1077]

Prosody. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1077 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 845 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. PROSODY. 845. 1077. Size 7 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 75. Seventeen lines in a page. هذا الكتاب المسمى بالكافى فى علم العروض و القوافى فى شرح القصيدة الساوية التى نظمها الامام صدر الدين محمد الساوى رحمه الله تع آمين. A Commentary on Ṣadr al-dîn Muḥammad Sâwî’s Ḳaṣîdah on Metre and Rhyme. This is a commentary by قال and اقول . The author, who is not mentioned, is, according to Ḥ. Kh. iv. 204 (v. عروض الساوى), ‘UBAIDALLAH B. ‘ABD AL-KÂFI b. ‘Abd al-majîd ‘Ubaidî, and this is his second and shorter commentary. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 21, 296; and Catal. Mus. Brit. 202, b. Plainly written by two hands. Completed by ‘Abd al-’azîz b. Ḥusain Nahrwâlî. Collated with the original copy, which belonged to ‘Abd al-malik b. Abu’l-barakât البنبانى , by Ismâ’îl b. Aḥmad Ja’far Ḥusainî, in Rabî’ I., 1017. A table of the metres and their varieties is on the title-page. [Gaikwar.]