Rhetoric [IO Bijapur 248]

<ul> <li><strong>Rhetoric.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 248&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. 850&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/244/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>850</strong></a>.</p> <p>B 248. Size 9 in. by 6^1/2in.; foll. 196. Sixteen lines in a page.</p> <p>I.Foll. 4-36. ḲAZW&Icirc;N&Icirc;'S تلخيص المفتاح . See the preceding no.</p> <p>II.Foll. 39-196. A larger work on Rhetoric, by the same author, arranged like the preceding one, to which it serves as a commentary. It is entitled الايضاح .</p> <p>This work is of rare occurrence. See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashf_al-Zunun">Ḥ. Kh.</a> ii. 403, i. 509; cf. Mehren, Rhetorik, p. 8. As the author states in the preface, it contains also the materials of المفتاح which are omitted in his تلخيص , as well as those of the دلائل الاعجاز , by &lsquo;Abd al-ḳ&acirc;hir Jurj&acirc;n&icirc; (d. A.H. 474),¹ which had not been incorporated with المفتاح .</p> <p>Carefully written in the hand of a scholar, often with distinction of the ''unpointed'' (مهملة) letters.</p> <p>Of the eighth century. The second treatise has been revised, and collated with another MS. On the margin of it are notes and extracts from earlier commentaries on المفتاح , and from other works.</p> <p>All the available vacant spaces of this volume are filled with various notes and extracts, in Arabic and <em>Persian</em>. Injured by damp and by insects.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>¹ See Ḥ. Kh. iii. 235, and Mehren, l.c., p. 8.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>