Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 123]

• Poetry and Elegant Prose.
• This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 123 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 809 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

809.

B 123. Size 9^3/4 in. by 6^1/2 in.; foll. 114. Fifteen lines in a page.

A fine old copy of the Maḳâmât, written in a bold hand, with all the vowel-points. Of the sixth or seventh century.

Incomplete. Twenty-two leaves are wanting at the beginning. The first words are لكنّ قوس الخطوب , from the eighth Maḳâmah . ³ One leaf is missing after fol.19, and one after 28; ten leaves are missing after 88, five after 97, ten after 107, and several at the end. Marginal notes of later date.

Cat. 226, xxxii.

³ p. ۸ . in De Sacy's edition.