A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1975
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Credit: A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the library of the India Office / by Otto Loth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    69/344 (page 55)
    with numerous notes. Preceded by a table of contents. Both this volume and the preceding bear the seal of Khan Jahan. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 144, i. [Tippu. | 214. 1776. Size 123 in. by 8 in.; foll. 174. Twenty lines in a page. The first half of the Widdyah. Mostly written in an inelegant Nasta‘lik hand, approaching Shikastah. Dated 25th Rabi‘ I., 1017. Colophon : kanal | be dalael| Lew) SODd Cows be) ll etal} Ciredd| oy ure Ail als cs oS ds Al be ay ) lej vast dle alll dre, Sal gery se ere ry ptilly Guralell .. ob “Lela ex (sic) 11V dus. Covered with notes. On fol. 174 recipes. Signature of R. Johnson. 215. 1419. Size 103 in. by 72 in.; foll. 232. Eighteen lines in a page. The second half of the same work, from & sell oss to the end. Mostly written in a bold Nasta‘lik hand; not quite finished, though a conclusion has been added, with the date, a.H. 1052. Copious marginal notes. Some portions supplied in two different hands. [ Johnson. | 216. B 848a. Size 114 in. by 7 in.; foll. 387. Eleven, afterwards nine lines in a page. The first portion of the Hiddyah, as far as Pal 1oks, with copious notes. Plainly written in a Persian hand, of about the tenth century. Imperfect at the beginning’ and end; single leaves are missing after foll. 47 and 96. Injured on the margin and stained. 1 Forty-five foll. are wanting. B 3438. Uniterm with the preceding MS. ; foll. 244. Another fragment of the same, extending from CoS git to dba) WS, with copious notes. Written in two different hands. Imperfect at the beginning and end, and in many other places. Stained. Part of fol. 124 torn off. This MS. and the preceding had been mixed together in utter confusion. Fol. 880 of the latter is inscribed : 4 Vor re ~ Vo : Cf. Catal. 227, i. 7, 8 (2). 218. 1398. Size 12 in. by 8 in.; foll. 335. Twenty- nine and twenty-one lines in a page. The first part of a copious Commentary on the Hiddyah, entitled &\ag\ — & $ &lel\. The author is Husdm al-din al-Husain b. ‘Ali SremnwAxi (d. a.n. 711), who completed his work in a.u. 700. See H. Kh. vi. 480, and Fliigel, Class. 327. Cf. Stewart’s Catal. 144, iii. No other copy seems to be extant. This is the first commentary that was written upon the HMiddyah. The author began it at the exhortation of his Shaikh, ‘Ala al-din Muhammad b. Ahmad b. ‘Omar us eludl. Of the two Isndds con- necting him with Marghinéni, the one consists of three, and the other of two intermediate persons. He can by no means be called his pupil, as he is by H. Kh. (l.c.). The original text is distinguished by the word 4) 93. The present volume consists of two separate portions. “The first (foll. 1-183) contains the books co {LI} and S,\c\|, and the second (foll. 184-335) the books 54S), eyo, and Ai. Two blanks on foll. 270 and 271, intended for drawings of the Mosque of Makkah, have never been filled up. Worm- Plainly written. eaten. Seal and signature of a Saiyid named Ashraf b. ‘Abdallah, who bought this MS. of Nir Muhammad wile, and seals of Faid ‘Alt Khan (a.H. 1174), and Muhammad Khidr Khan (a.H. 1191), [Tippu. ]