Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 262]

Rhetoric.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 262 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 877 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

877.

B 262. Size 63/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 203. Nineteen lines in a page.

The shorter Commentary of TAFTÂZÂNÎ on theتلخيص المفتاح , commonly called المختصر . It was completed A.H. 756, and dedicated to Sulṭân Jalâl al-dîn Abu’l-muẓaffar Maḥmûd Jânî Beg Khân.1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 404; Cat. St. Petersb. 189; Von Krafft, Hdss. orient. Akad. 22; etc. This commentary has been frequently published in India, first at Calcutta, 1813. It was also printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1259.

Extracts from it are given in Mehren’s Rhetorik der Araber.

Well written in a small hand. Of about the ninth century. Covered with notes of various origin. The beginning of the work is here in two copies, the first of which breaks off on fol. 3. The vacant pages at the beginning and at the end of the book are filled with various extracts in Arabic and Persian.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1028.

Cat. 237, vii.

1 Cf. Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte der Goldenen Horde, p. 305.