Biography and History [IO Islamic 1399]

<ul> <li><strong>Biography and History.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1399&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. 707 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>707.</p> <p>1399. Size 11^1/2 in. by 6^1/4 in.; foll. 520. Twenty-seven lines in a page.</p> <p>Another copy of proceeding work.</p> <p>Well written, by &lsquo;Abd al-razz&acirc;ḳ b. Ḥasan Muḥammad قربسى (sic), at Aḥmad&acirc;b&acirc;d. Dated 24th Ṣafar, 1034. The original copy appears to have had several defects, for which blanks were left. All of these have been subsequently filled up in a bad hand.</p> <p>On the fly-leaves of this MS. (foll. 44-46) are added, by different hands, the commencement of an alphabetical list of all the persons whose deaths are mentioned in the present work; and a notice of Taft&acirc;z&acirc;n&icirc;, and the dates of his various works, said to be the inscription of his tomb. A later owner, Muḥammad, Riḍa b. Ghul&acirc;m Muḥammad, who bought the MS. A.H. 1146, prefixed to it a list of the events and persons mentioned under each year (foll. 2-43).</p> <p>Fol. 1 gives the two notices of the author mentioned already under the preceding no. (note1).</p> <p>Foll. 76, 77, and 398 are misplaced in binding, as may be seen from the original pagination.</p> <p>[Hastings.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>