Prosody [IO Islamic 1077]

<ul> <li><strong>Prosody.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1077&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. 845&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>PROSODY.</p> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/244/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>845</strong></a>.</p> <p>1077. Size 7 in. by 4^1/2 in.; foll. 75. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>هذا الكتاب المسمى بالكافى فى علم العروض و القوافى فى شرح القصيدة الساوية التى نظمها الامام صدر الدين محمد الساوى رحمه الله تع آمين.</p> <p>A Commentary on Ṣadr al-d&icirc;n Muḥammad <em>S&acirc;w&icirc;&rsquo;</em>s Ḳaṣ&icirc;dah on Metre and Rhyme. This is a commentary by قال and اقول . The author, who is not mentioned, is, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf_al-Zunun">Ḥ. Kh. </a>iv. 204 (<em>v</em>. عروض الساوى), &lsquo;UBAIDALLAH B. &lsquo;ABD AL-K&Acirc;FI b. &lsquo;Abd al-maj&icirc;d &lsquo;Ubaid&icirc;, and this is his second and shorter commentary. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 21, 296; and Catal. Mus. Brit. 202, <em>b</em>.</p> <p>Plainly written by two hands. Completed by &lsquo;Abd al-&rsquo;az&icirc;z b. Ḥusain Nahrw&acirc;l&icirc;. Collated with the original copy, which belonged to &lsquo;Abd al-malik b. Abu&rsquo;l-barak&acirc;t البنبانى , by Ism&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;l b. Aḥmad Ja&rsquo;far Ḥusain&icirc;, in Rab&icirc;&rsquo; I., 1017.</p> <p>A table of the metres and their varieties is on the title-page.</p> <p>[Gaikwar.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>