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Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2280]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2280&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. 802 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>802.</p> <p>2280. Size 7<sup>1/2</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/2</sup> in.; foll. 85. Twenty-one lines in a page.</p> <p>I.Foll. 1-77. ZAUZAN&Icirc;&rsquo;S Commentary on the <em>Mu&rsquo;alla</em><em>ḳ&acirc;t</em>.</p> <p>II.Foll. 78-84. A Commentary on <em>Ka&rsquo;b b. Zuhair&rsquo;s</em> Ḳaṣ&icirc;dah in praise of Muḥammad, بانت سعاد .</p> <p>This commentary is different from that published by Lette and Freytag. Tabr&icirc;z&icirc; (d. A.H. 502) is quoted at the beginning of the introduction, on the authority of his pupil Jaw&acirc;liḳ&icirc; (d. A.H. 539); اخبرنا الشيخ الامام الاجل الاوحد ابو منصور موهوب <sup>1</sup> بن احمد بن محمد بن الخضر وفّقه الله تعالى لمرضاته الخ. The relation of Tabr&icirc;z&icirc; is founded on the following <em>Isn&acirc;d</em>: Abu Muḥammad Ibn al-Ḥasan Jauhar&icirc; (d. A.H.454) , Abu &lsquo;Omar Muḥammad b. al-&rsquo;Abb&acirc;s b. Zakar&icirc;y&acirc; b. Ḥaiyawaih (date, 1st Ṣafar, 327),</p> <p>al-&lsquo;Abb&acirc;s b. Zakar&icirc;y&acirc; b. Ḥaiyawaih,</p> <p>&lsquo;Abdallah b. &lsquo;Amr,</p> <p>Ibr&acirc;h&icirc;m b. al-Mundhir,</p> <p>al-Ḥajj&acirc;j Muzan&icirc;,<sup>2</sup> son of al-Raḳ&icirc;bah b. &lsquo;Abd al-raḥm&acirc;n b. Ka&rsquo;b, and great-grandson of the poet.</p> <p>This commentary, therefore, may be the work of Tabr&icirc;z&icirc;, or rather an abridgment of it. Cf. Cat. Mus. Brit. 316, DCXLV., no. lii.</p> <p>Closely written in Nasta&rsquo;liḳ; the first ten foll. By a different hand.</p> <p>On the last fol. are two facetious poems, describing woman in various ages, from ten to a hundred years. The first of these poems begins:</p> <p>متى تلق بنت العشر قد بان ثديها.</p> <p>Written in a clumsy Naskh hand.</p> <p>[College of Fort William, 1832.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><sup>1</sup> MS. بن هوب . <sup>2</sup> MS. المرى .</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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