Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2170]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2170&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. 831&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>831.</p> <p>2170. Size 9 in. by 6 in.; foll. 268. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>The second part of the same work, from Chapter 51 to the end. Written like the preceding MS. Completed at the end of Shaww&acirc;l, 1138, by Sa&rsquo;&icirc;d b. S&acirc;lim b. Muḥammad B&acirc; R&acirc;shid Ḥaḍram&icirc; Ḥimyar&icirc;. At the end are the following verses:</p> <p>كتبت و قد ايقنت يوم كتابتى</p> <p>بان يدى تفنى و يبقى كتابها</p> <p>و اعلم بان ( sic ) الله سائلها غداً</p> <p>فيا ليت شعرى ما يكون جوابها</p> <p>and</p> <p>ان تجد عيبا فسُدّ الخللا جل من عيب فيه وعلا.</p> <p>Both parts bear the seals of &lsquo;Abd al-wahh&acirc;b Kh&acirc;n (A.H. 1168), and Iḳtid&acirc;r Kh&acirc;n (A.H. 1179).</p> <p>[College of Fort William, 1825.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>