Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 253]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 253 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 854 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 854. B 253. Size 93/4 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 251. Twenty-one lines in a page. Another copy of the same work. At the end is the author׳s date, as given elsewhere. He began his work on Monday, 2nd Ramaḍân, 742, at جرجانية خوارزم , and completed it on Wednesday, 11th Ṣafar, 748, at Harât. Well written, by ׳Abd al-karîm b. Dâ׳ûd Ṣiddîḳî Ḳanaujî, for Ḥâfiẓ Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Sharîf. The latter states in a note at the end that he revised the copy and added the copious glosses which are to be found on the margin, during five months of the year A.H. 1003, at Ḳanauj. A list of the contents is on the fly-leaf.