Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 267]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 267 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 848 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 848. B 267. Size 103/4 in. by 71/4 in.; foll. 228. Mostly thirty-one lines in a page. Another copy of TAFTÂZÂNÎ’S Commentary, slightly imperfect at the beginning. Clearly written in a cursive hand. Completed on Thursday, 29th Sha’bân, 832, by ‘Ubaid b. Ḥamîd al-dîn الساسى (?) . Emended. Some notes. The beginning is written in a different, large hand. The first complete gloss begins: قوله و اعنى بالفهم (= fol. 5 of the preceding no.). Injured by insects. Erroneously inscribed كتاب فتح المبين ; cf. Catal . 237, x.