Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2330] ديوان المتنبى

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2330&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. 807 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>807.</p> <p>2330. Size 7^1/4 in. by 4^3/4 in.; foll. 155. Twenty-one lines in a page.</p> <p>ديوان المتنبى</p> <p>The D&icirc;w&acirc;n of <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80103859/">Abu&rsquo;l-Ṭaiyib Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusain MUTANABBI</a> (d. A.H. 354), alphabetically arranged, with short notes on the subject, metre, and rhyme of each poem.</p> <p>Begins:</p> <p>(قال) ابو الطيّب احمد بن الحسين المتنبى رحمه الله و مولده بالكوفة فى كندة سنة ثلاث و ثلثمائة يمدح سيف الدولة و كان امره باجازة ابيات على هذا الوزن و هذا الروى</p> <p>عذل العواذل حول قلبى التائه</p> <p>و هوى الاحبّة منه فى سودائه</p> <p>with which compare the beginning of the commentary of &lsquo;Ukbar&icirc; (printed at Calcutta, A.H. 1261), Cat. Mus. Brit. 280, and Cat. Upsal. 76.</p> <p>Well written. Dated A.H. 1017 [=1608-09 CE]. Diacritical points occasionally omitted. Vowel-points irregularly and not always carefully added. Fol. 112 mutilated.</p> <p>A circumstantial account of the text of this MS. is given at the end (foll. 152-154). It was derived from two copies, one of which had been written by Raj&acirc; b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Marzub&acirc;n, and collated &ndash; among other اصول with a copy which had been read to Mutanabbi&rsquo;, and again to Ibn Jinn&icirc;. The other copy had been verified by Mutanabbi&rsquo; himself. This text was subsequently collated with three copies, which were apparently arranged on the chronological principle.</p> <p>&lsquo;&lsquo;Ex libris <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/68a46572-7827-4140-a01b-3e9338585db5">A[braham] Lockett</a>, 1811.&rsquo;&rsquo;</p> <p>[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_College">College of Fort William</a>, 1825.]</p> <ul> <li>[<strong>ed note</strong>: <a href="https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/work_20785">Quick link</a> to other copies of the same work.]</li> </ul>