Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 89]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 89 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 832 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

832.

B 89. Size 10 in. by 6 in.; foll. 439. Twenty-one lines in a page.

An imperfect copy of the same work, in two parts, the first of which concludes with Chapter 42 (fol. 166).

Plainly written. Of the twelfth century. The beginning is wanting, and there is a considerable defect after fol. 6.

The first words are : و عنه صلعم ما من مُسلم الخ , from Chapter 1. At the end is the same tetrastich as in the preceding MS., introduced by the words وما احسن ما قيل .

Cat. 230 (Vaz), x.