Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 261]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 261 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 887 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 887. B 261. Size 91/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 448. Twenty-three lines in a page. Another Commentary (ممزوج) on the تلخيص المفتاح , by Ibrâhîm b. Muḥammad b. ׳Arabshâh ISFARÂ’INÎ ( ‘Iṣâm al-dîn, d. A.H. 943). It is commonly called الاطول , on account of its being even larger than Taftâzânî’s المطوّل . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 410. Plainly written by several hands. A lacuna after fol. 271 is indicated by two blank leaves. Some portions are much injured by insects, and the end is in a ruinous condition. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1014, from Amîn Khân. Cat. 237, ii (?).