Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 1151]

• Poetry and Elegant Prose.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1151 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 798 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

POETRY AND ELEGANT PROSE.

798.

1151. Size 10 in. by 6^3/4 in.; foll. 75. Eight lines (hemistichs) in a page.

The Seven Mu’allaḳât.

Boldly written, with all the vowel-points, but very incorrect. Some of the grossest errors have been corrected on the margin. The first two pages are splendidly ornamented. Dated Sha’bân, 1196. A defect after fol. 6.

[Johnson.]