Rhetoric [IO Islamic 1087]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1087 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 861 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 861. 1087. Size 7 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 141. Seventeen lines in a page. Glosses on المطوّل , by SAIYID SHARÎF JURJÂNÎ (d. A.H. 816). See Ḥ. Kh. ii. 404. Printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1241. The first gloss is: قوله و بهذا يظهر الخ . Very neatly written in Nasta’liḳ. The colophon runs as follows: وقد وقع الفراغ من تنميق الحاشية الشريفة الشريفية قدس سر مؤلفها فى شهر ذى حجة الحرام المنتظم فى سلك شهور سنة ثمان و تسعين و تسعمائة كتبها اضعف عبادالله عبيدالله بن لطف الله غفر ذنوبهما. Additional notes by the author, and numerous other glosses, on the margin. An ornament at the beginning. Gold and blue lines round the pages. Slightly injured by damp. [Hastings.]