Rhetoric [IO Islamic 2206]

Rhetoric.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2206 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 886 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

886.

2206. Size 8 in. by 41/4 in.; foll. 91. Fifteen lines in a page.

Glosses on المختصر , by MAULÂNÂZÂDAH (KHUTTÂ׳Î, who flourished in the ninth century). These glosses are also to be found in Catal. St. Petersb. p. 191, no. ccx. They were printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1256 (149 pp.).

The surname of the author is given here according to the Calcutta edition.1 It is elsewhere spelled الخطائى.

He is probably identical with the Niẓâm al-dîn ‘Othmân Khaṭâ׳î (d. A.H. 901, sic), or Maulânâzâdah 'Othmân Khaṭâ׳î, mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. ii. 407 sq., 447. The glosses mentioned ib. p. 408 seem to be different from these.

Begins: نحمدك اللهم على ما اعطيتنا من سوابغ النعم .

Legibly written in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikastah, occasionally across the pages. Marginal notes. The text of the Mukhtaṣar is partly added on the upper margin.

This copy was made by ‘Abd al-razzâḳ Ḥusainî.., at الجالس . Date, A.H. 1092.

The earlier portion of this MS. has been misplaced in binding. The leaves should stand thus: foll. 1-6 (here a slight defect), 7-8 (another defect), 9-20, 22, 23, 21, 25, 26, 24, 30, 27-29, 38, 32-37, 31, 39-41, 43, 42, 44 to the end.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

1 We read in the editor’s conclusion, p. ‘۴٩:

المنسوب الی الخُتّا: See regarding this place, Yâḳût, ii. ۴۰۲.