Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 782]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 782&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. 830&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>830.</p> <p>782. Size 9 in. by 6^1/4in.; foll. 307.Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>هذا كتاب المستطرف من ( sic ) كل فنّ مستظرف تاليف الفقير الى عفو ربه الراجى لمغفرة ذنبه محمد الخطيب الاشبهى ( sic ) .</p> <p>The first part of the Anthology of Shih&acirc;b al-d&icirc;n Muḥammad b. Aḥmad KHAṬ&Icirc;B ABSH&Icirc;H&Icirc; (who flourished about A.H. 800). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 524. A full account of this work has been given in Catal. Bodl. ii. 97 sqq.</p> <p>See also Cat. Mus. Brit. 335, 654; Fl&uuml;gel, Hdss.</p> <p>Wien, i. 374; etc. It was printed at B&ucirc;l&acirc;ḳ, A.H. 1268.</p> <p>This volume goes as far as Chapter 50.</p> <p>Legibly written in a cursive hand.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>