Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 782]

Poetry and Elegant Prose. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 782 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 830 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 830. 782. Size 9 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 307.Seventeen lines in a page. هذا كتاب المستطرف من ( sic ) كل فنّ مستظرف تاليف الفقير الى عفو ربه الراجى لمغفرة ذنبه محمد الخطيب الاشبهى ( sic ) . The first part of the Anthology of Shihâb al-dîn Muḥammad b. Aḥmad KHAṬÎB ABSHÎHÎ (who flourished about A.H. 800). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 524. A full account of this work has been given in Catal. Bodl. ii. 97 sqq. See also Cat. Mus. Brit. 335, 654; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 374; etc. It was printed at Bûlâḳ, A.H. 1268. This volume goes as far as Chapter 50. Legibly written in a cursive hand.