Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 125]

Poetry and Elegant Prose.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 125 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 816 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

816.

B 125. Size 7 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 102. Twelve lines in a page.

Amplifications (تخميس) of MUḤAMMAD B. ABU BAKR B. RASHÎD Baghdâdî’s (d. A.H. 662) Ḳâṣîdahs in praise of the Prophet, styled وِتْريّة . See regarding these Ḳaṣîdahs, Ḥ. Kh. vi. 422. Whether one of the two تخميس mentioned there is identical with this MS., cannot be ascertained.

There is no introduction. The first تخميس begins:

بدات بذكر الله مدحا مقدَّما

و اثنى بحمد الله شكرا معظّما

و اختم قولى بالصلوة و انّما

اصلى صلوة تملا الارض و السما على من له اعلى العلى متبوّءُ

Well written, with vowel-points. Red lines round the pages. Many marginal notes. The end is missing.