Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2227]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2227 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 840 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

840.

2227. Size 111/4 in. by 63/4 in.; foll. 315. Twenty-five lines in a page.

Another copy of the Kashḳûl in one volume, resembling, as it seems, the MS. described by Flügel, l.c.

Written in Nasta’liḳ, the lines running in various directions. Coloured lines round the pages. Of the twelfth century.

It concludes with the colophon of the original copy, which begins: تم المجلد الخامس من الكشكول بعون الله تعالى و يتلوه المجلد السادس (!) بحسن توفيقه نسخته من خط جامعه جمع الله بيننا و بينه فى الدارين الخ , but has no date.

The single parts of the work form separate volumes مجلد) , only the first and second are not separated (see fol. 68v.) ; the conclusion of the former is different from the common one, and something is omitted at the beginning of the latter , which commences : تولى ابن السراج القضاء الخ.

Foll. 310 and 311 should be placed between 306 and 307.

On the title-page are added: a tract proving the existence of God; a note regarding the anthropomorphism of various sects, which is derived from the author's own copy (نقل من خط المصنف قدس سره بواسطين ) ; and the names of the Seven Sleepers, اصحاب الكهف, the latter by a different hand.

In a strong binding of blue leather, with gold ornaments, and with frequent impressions of the mark Πon the back.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]