Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 266]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 266 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 846 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. RHETORIC. 846. B 266. Size 111/2 in. by 7 in.; fol. 295. Eleven lines in a page. A fragment of the third part of Sirâj al-dîn Abu Ya’ḳûb Yûsuf b. Muḥammad SAKKÂKÎ’S (d. A.H. 626) encyclopedical work called مفتاح العلوم . This part treats of Rhetoric (علم المعانى و البيان) . It has become the basis of all the later works on that science. See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 15; Cat. Lugd. i. 124 sqq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 253; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 309; etc. Boldly written, with numerous notes. Of the tenth century. Section II. begins on fol. 201. It is inscribed الفصل الثانى فى علم البيان من القسم الثالث من الكتاب . Ten foll. are wanting at the beginning. The first words are: للمخاطب او اذا قال الخ . Two foll. are missing after fol. 266. The latter portion is much injured by damp. Imperfect at the end. Erroneously inscribed شرح مغنى لبيب ; cf. Catal . 234 (Nuhow), i. 2.