Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 266]

<ul> <li><strong>Rhetoric.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 266&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. 846&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>RHETORIC.</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/244/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>846</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 266. Size 11^1/2in. by 7 in.; fol. 295. Eleven lines in a page.</p> <p>A fragment of the third part of Sir&acirc;j al-d&icirc;n Abu Ya&rsquo;ḳ&ucirc;b Y&ucirc;suf b. Muḥammad SAKK&Acirc;K&Icirc;&rsquo;S (d. A.H. 626) encyclopedical work called مفتاح العلوم . This part treats of Rhetoric (علم المعانى و البيان) . It has become the basis of all the later works on that science. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf_al-Zunun">Ḥ. Kh.</a> vi. 15; Cat. Lugd. i. 124 sqq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 253; Aumer, <a href="https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Turnstile/Challenge?context=eyJwb2xpY3lJZCI6ImdlbmVyYWwiLCJkZXN0aW5hdGlvbiI6IlwvdnVmaW5kXC9SZWNvcmRcLzcxMTQyOCJ9">Hdss</a>. M&uuml;nch. 309; etc.</p> <p>Boldly written, with numerous notes. Of the tenth century. Section II. begins on fol. 201. It is inscribed الفصل الثانى فى علم البيان من القسم الثالث من الكتاب . Ten foll. are wanting at the beginning.</p> <p>The first words are: للمخاطب او اذا قال الخ . Two foll. are missing after fol. 266. The latter portion is much injured by damp. Imperfect at the end.</p> <p>Erroneously inscribed شرح مغنى لبيب ; cf. Catal . 234 (Nuhow), i. 2.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>