Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 125]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 125&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. 816&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/236/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>816</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 125. Size 7 in. by 5^1/2 in.; foll. 102. Twelve lines in a page.</p> <p>Amplifications (تخميس) of MUḤAMMAD B. ABU BAKR B. RASH&Icirc;D Baghd&acirc;d&icirc;&rsquo;s (d. A.H. 662) Ḳ&acirc;ṣ&icirc;dahs in praise of the Prophet, styled وِتْريّة . See regarding these Ḳaṣ&icirc;dahs, Ḥ. Kh. vi. 422. Whether one of the two تخميس mentioned there is identical with this MS., cannot be ascertained.</p> <p>There is no introduction. The first تخميس begins:</p> <p>بدات بذكر الله مدحا مقدَّما</p> <p>و اثنى بحمد الله شكرا معظّما</p> <p>و اختم قولى بالصلوة و انّما</p> <p>اصلى صلوة تملا الارض و السما على من له اعلى العلى متبوّءُ</p> <p>Well written, with vowel-points. Red lines round the pages. Many marginal notes. The end is missing.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>