Biography and History [IO Islamic 1399]

Biography and History. 

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1399 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 707 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

707.

1399. Size 111/2 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 520. Twenty-seven lines in a page.

Another copy of proceeding work.

Well written, by ‘Abd al-razzâḳ b. Ḥasan Muḥammad قربسى (sic), at Aḥmadâbâd. Dated 24th Ṣafar, 1034. The original copy appears to have had several defects, for which blanks were left. All of these have been subsequently filled up in a bad hand.

On the fly-leaves of this MS. (foll. 44-46) are added, by different hands, the commencement of an alphabetical list of all the persons whose deaths are mentioned in the present work; and a notice of Taftâzânî, and the dates of his various works, said to be the inscription of his tomb. A later owner, Muḥammad, Riḍa b. Ghulâm Muḥammad, who bought the MS. A.H. 1146, prefixed to it a list of the events and persons mentioned under each year (foll. 2-43).

Fol. 1 gives the two notices of the author mentioned already under the preceding no. (note1).

Foll. 76, 77, and 398 are misplaced in binding, as may be seen from the original pagination.

[Hastings.]