Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 37A]

• Poetry and Elegant Prose.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 37A in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 805 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

805.

37A. Size 11^1/2 in. by 7^1/2 in.; foll. 46. Six lines in a page.

Some extracts from the Ḥamâsah. The first of them are from the beginning of the work.

Well written in a large hand, without vowel-points. Tastefully ornamented. Injured by insects.

In an elegant gilt binding. Seal and signature of Charles Boddam, Calcutta, 1787.