Biography and History [IO Islamic 2151]

<ul> <li><strong>Biography and History.&nbsp;</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2151&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. 705 here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p>705.</p> <p>2151. Size 10 in. by 7^1/2 in.; foll. 333. Twenty-one lines in a page.</p> <p>المختار من وفيات الاعيان الخ</p> <p>An Abridgment of <em>Ibn Khallik&acirc;n&rsquo;s</em> Biographical Dictionary, made by his son M&Ucirc;SA , for his private use, during the years 701 and 702 A.H.</p> <p>This is the author&rsquo;s rough copy, consisting originally of two volumes. The earlier portion of the first volume, however, is lost. It begins now with the eighteenth quire (كراسة) , which has been inscribed الجزء الثانى . The first article is &lsquo;Al&icirc; b. Aflaḥ (no.487, ed W&uuml;stenfeld). It ends with the thirty-second quire, in the notice of Zamakhshar&icirc; (ed; W&uuml;stenfeld, no. 721), the last portion being also lost. The second volume (fol. 151), المجلد الثانى , has a particular title, written by the author himself. It begins with the fourth fascicle of the original work (al-Mu&rsquo;izz = no. 737, ed. W&uuml;stenf.), and contains the rest of the book. It consists of twenty-three quires, but it has now several defects, especially in the twelfth and thirteenth quires; some leaves of the latter are also misplaced in binding.</p> <p>The author states at the beginning of the second volume, that he began it on Sunday, 2nd Dhu&rsquo;l-ḥijjah, 701, at Balbee, and he adds in the postscript (fol. 331<em>v</em>. قلت اعنى كاتبها موسى بن احمد لطف الله به الخ ) , that he continued his work at Damascus, where he arrived from Balbee on Sunday , 20th Rab&icirc;&rsquo; I., 702, and completed it on Sunday, 3rd Rab&icirc;&rsquo; II. of the same year. At the end is written the epilogue of Ibn Khallik&acirc;n, to which the author added, in a second postscript, a short memoir of his father and an account of his own work.</p> <p>This rough copy is written in a hurried hand, without diacritical points, and is often difficult to read.</p> <p>On the title-page are the signatures of several recent owners and readers. One of these, &lsquo;Abd al-raḥm&acirc;n Ḥalab&icirc;, whose seal is also added, wrote the title to the first volume.</p> <p>[College of Fort William, 1825.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>