Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2291]

Poetry and Elegant Prose. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2291 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 826 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 826. 2291. Size 9 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 205. Twenty-five lines in a page. Foll. 1-186. Another copy of the same Commentary. The complete text of the Ḳaṣîdah is added on the margin. Emendations and various glosses. Foll. 187-194. A long poem in praise of Muḥammad, beginning: اثغور منها الصباحُ اضآءَ Foll. 195 and 196. تخميس of a Ḳaṣîdah of Saiyid Ḥusain .. السيد الشريف حسين بن الصديق الاهدل , by the author of the preceding poem. The Ḳaṣîdah begins: يا رسول الله غوثا و مدد . Foll. 197v. and 198. A short Ḳaṣîdah, beginning: بسيف الححا (sic) عند اشتداد النوائب. It is followed by various notes. Well written in a small hand. An ornament at the beginning. Coloured lines round the pages. Foll. 198-204. A short account of the sects of Islâm, transcribed from ÎJÎ’S كتاب المواقف . Begins: تذييل الكتاب فى ذكر الفرق الخ . Written in a minute character. Fol. 205. Explanation of the beginning of Sûrah 95, from the Kashshâf. [College of Fort William, 1825.]