Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2956]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2956 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 799 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

799.

2956. Size 103/4 in. by 71/2 in.; foll. 102. Eight, fifteen, and twelve lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-75. Another copy of the Mu'allaḳât, evidently taken from the same MS. as the preceding.

Well written in a large hand. The beginning is tastefully ornamented. Gold lines round the pages.

II.Foll. 76v.-97. The Burdah of BÛṢÎRÎ (d. A.H. 694), with an interlinear translation and glosses in Persian. See below, no. 817.

Plainly written. Foll. 76-86 are in a different hand.

The glosses are written in a very good Nasta’liḳ.

III.Foll. 97v.-99. A devout poem in ten verses.

Begins:

جُدْ بلطفك يا الهى من له زادٌ قليلُ

IV.Foll. 100v.102. Some fragments of the Mu’allaḳât, the concluding verses of LABÎD, and verses 1, 2, 47-53 of ‘ANTARAH, with short explanations in Persian.

Injured by insects.

In a very elegant binding of red leather; gilt. Signature of Chas. Boddam, Calcutta, 1787.