Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 1169]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1169&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. 841&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/242/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>841</strong></a>.</p> <p>1169. Size 8^1/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 98. Seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>كتاب الدرة المكللة فى فتوح مكة المبجلة زادها الله تعالى شرفا و كرما و مهابة و تعظيما تاليف الشيخ الامام العالم المحدث ابى الحسن البكرى رضى الله عنه و رحم سلفه آمين.</p> <p>A legendary and poetical account of the conquest of Makkah by the Prophet, ascribed to ABU&rsquo;L-ḤASAN BAKR&Icirc; (probably Shams al-d&icirc;n Muḥammad b. &lsquo;Abd al-raḥm&acirc;n Miṣr&icirc;, who died about A.H. 950 ; sec <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf_al-Zunun">Ḥ. Kh.</a> <em>Passim</em>). It was printed at Cairo, A.H. 1282.</p> <p>Beginning: الحمدلله رب العالمين &lsquo; و العاقبة للمتقين &lsquo; و لا عدوان الاّ على الظالمين &lsquo; احمده على نعمه .... اما بعد فهذا ما تيسّر الينا من كتاب الدرة المكللة فى فتوح مكة المبجلة روى عن الامام على بن ابى طالب الخ.</p> <p>The progress of the recital is frequently marked by the words قال الراوى . A special authority is not introduced.</p> <p>Plainly written, by &lsquo;Omar Ibn Ḥij&acirc;z&icirc;. Dated Thursday, 23rd Jum. I., 1062. The copy was made for Ḥasan, Shaikh of the Haw&acirc;rah Arabs, in al-Ṣa&rsquo;&icirc;d, ¹ &ndash; مما عمل برسم المجلس العالى الاوحدى الاكملى الدخرى المعتمدى شيخ مشايخ عربان هوارة بالصعيد الاعلى مَن اسمه و فعله حسن احسن الله تعالى اليه الخ .</p> <p>A formula of exorcism, which is also ascribed to BAKR&Icirc;, is added on the last page.</p> <p>[Gaikwar.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ Cf. Quatrem&egrave;re, M&eacute;moires sur l'Egypte, ii. 209.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>