Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2170]

• Poetry and Elegant Prose.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2170 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 831 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

831.

2170. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 268. Seventeen lines in a page.

The second part of the same work, from Chapter 51 to the end. Written like the preceding MS. Completed at the end of Shawwâl, 1138, by Sa’îd b. Sâlim b. Muḥammad Bâ Râshid Ḥaḍramî Ḥimyarî. At the end are the following verses:

كتبت و قد ايقنت يوم كتابتى

بان يدى تفنى و يبقى كتابها

و اعلم بان ( sic ) الله سائلها غداً

فيا ليت شعرى ما يكون جوابها

and

ان تجد عيبا فسُدّ الخللا جل من عيب فيه وعلا.

Both parts bear the seals of ‘Abd al-wahhâb Khân (A.H. 1168), and Iḳtidâr Khân (A.H. 1179).

[College of Fort William, 1825.]