Rhetoric [848]

• Rhetoric.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic B267 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 848 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

848.

B 267. Size 10^3/4 in. by 7^1/4 in.; foll. 228. Mostly thirty-one lines in a page.

Another copy of TAFTÂZÂNÎ’S Commentary, slightly imperfect at the beginning.

Clearly written in a cursive hand. Completed on Thursday, 29th Sha’bân, 832, by ‘Ubaid b. Ḥamîd al-dîn الساسى (?) . Emended. Some notes. The beginning is written in a different, large hand.

The first complete gloss begins: قوله و اعنى بالفهم (= fol. 5 of the preceding no.). Injured by insects.

Erroneously inscribed كتاب فتح المبين ; cf. Catal . 237, x.