Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Bijapur 123]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 123&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. 809 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/234/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>809</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 123. Size 9^3/4 in. by 6^1/2in.; foll. 114. Fifteen lines in a page.</p> <p>A fine old copy of the <em>Ma</em><em>ḳ&acirc;m&acirc;t</em>, written in a bold hand, with all the vowel-points. Of the sixth or seventh century.</p> <p>Incomplete. Twenty-two leaves are wanting at the beginning. The first words are لكنّ قوس الخطوب , from the eighth <em>Ma</em><em>ḳ&acirc;mah</em> . ³ One leaf is missing after fol.19, and one after 28; ten leaves are missing after 88, five after 97, ten after 107, and several at the end. Marginal notes of later date.</p> <p>Cat. 226, xxxii.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>³ p. ۸ . in De Sacy's edition.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>