Rhetoric [IO Islamic 1232]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1232 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 866 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 866. 1232. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 243. Twenty-seven and twenty-eight lines in a page. Another copy of the same Commentary, without the preface. The name of the author is given at the end as يحيى السيف السيرانى . Closely written in Nasta’liḳ; the last fol. by a different hand. The colophon gives the name of ‘Abd al-ḳâdir b. Shaikh Sulṭân Ilâhdâd … 1 Emended. The first leaf is injured. [Johnson.] 1 The pedigree of this person is given at some length, but it is rather confused by blottings and alterations.