Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 254]

Rhetoric.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 254 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 865 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

865.

B 254. Size 7 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 568. Seventeen lines in a page.

A Commentary (by قوله ) on المطوّل , by YAḤYA B. YÛSUF1 SÎRÂMÎ2 (Miṣrî, d. A.H. 833). See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 407, for an abstract of the preface.

The commentary begins: قوله الحمد لله الخ اقول الالهام القاء معنى فى القلب بطريق الفيض الخ . The date of the author is to be found at the end, viz.

Wednesday, 3rd Ṣafar, 830, and the following is added concerning the origin of this copy: و من الله تعالى بالفراغ من كتابته من نسخة منقولة من نسخة مكتوبة بخط سيدنا و مولانا اقضى قضاة الاسلام بدر الدين محمد السعدى الحنبلى الناظر فى الاحكام الشرعية بالديار المصرية اسبغ الله تعالى ظلاله تم الكتاب المبارك فى السادس من شهر ذى القعدة الحرام احمد شهور ست و ثمانين و تسعمائة ببلدة احمداىكر (؟ احمد نكر. r .!) من الدكن و الحمدلله اولا وآخرا وباطنا و ظاهرا و كتبه الاقل يحيى بن شمس الدين بن احمد رسما له من الحرانى ( sic ) الشريف عفى الله عنه و عنهم اجمعين.

Neatly written. Revised. Both the beginning and end of the book are injured by insects.

The signature of the owner, who is mentioned in the colophon, is on the title-page (dated A.H. 986), together with an impression of his seal. Both are , however, nearly effaced.

Cat. 237, vi. 1 (?)

1 The MS. has سيف .

2 So in this MS., though originally السيرافى was written. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. vii. 681, and the following no.