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Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 122]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 122&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 800 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>800.</p> <p>B 122. Size 10 in. by 5<sup>3/4</sup> in.; foll. 61. From twenty-eight to thirty lines in a page.</p> <p>شرح المعلقات السبع الخ</p> <p>A concise Commentary on the <em>Mu&rsquo;alla</em><em>ḳ&acirc;t, </em>ascribed to Abu&rsquo;l-Ḥasan Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, commonly called IBN KAIS&Acirc;N the grammarian (d. probably A.H. 320).<sup>1</sup> It is mentioned neither in the <em>Fihrist </em>(ed. Fl&uuml;gel, ۸۲), nor in Ḥ. Kh.</p> <p>This commentary is intended for the use of beginners.</p> <p>It gives rather short explanations of obscure words, and a paraphrase of each verse. The former are introduced by التفسير , and the latter by المعنى . Special grammatical questions are occasionally discussed in an appendix, which the superficial reader is advised to skip.</p> <p>The preface begins: الحمد لله و الصلوة على النبى محمد و آله و صحبه اجمعين قال ابوالحسن محمد بن احمد كَيْسَان النحوى رحه اختصرنا غرائب هذه القصائد السبع المشهورة الخ.</p> <p>The first scholium is introduced by the words: قال التعالبى (!) قال لنا ابوالحسن . Tha&rsquo;&acirc;lib&icirc; is accordingly supposed to have handed down the work from the author; he was born, however, thirty years after the death of the latter (A.H. 350).</p> <p>Plainly written. Completed and collated on Thursday, 14th Rab&icirc;&rsquo; II., 1098, by Zain b. 'Abdallah Muḳaibil.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><sup>1</sup> Cf. Fl&uuml;gel, die grammatischen Schulen der Araber, 210<em>n</em>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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