Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 126]

Poetry and Elegant Prose. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 126 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 823 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 823. B 126. Size 71/2 in. by 4 in.; foll. 31. Fifteen lines in a page. Another Ḳaṣîdah by BÛṢÎRÎ, on the excellency and the miracles of Muḥammad. It is entitled امّ القرى , but it is more commonly called from its rhyme , الهمزية . See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 557. 1 Cf. Cat. Bodl. i. 254, ii. 339. Plainly written, with vowel-points, by one Ṣâdiḳ. 1 The statement of Ḥ. Kh. regarding the name ام القرى , is taken from Ibn Ḥajar’s commentary. See the following no.