Grammar [IO Islamic 2219]

• Grammar.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2219 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 980 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

980.

2219. Size 8 in. by 5^1/2 in.; foll. 185. Twenty and twenty-three lines in a page.

I. Foll. 1-143. الفواكه الجنّية على متمّمة الجرومية للشيخ عبدالله الفاكهى تغمده الله برحمته.

A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on a treatise on Grammar , which professes to be a supplement to Ibn Ajurrûmî’s well-known book. This treatise is the work of Shams al-dîn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ru’ainî Makkî Mâliklî, commonly called al-Ḥaṭṭâb. The name of the commentator, ‘ABDALLAH FÂKIHÎ, does not occur in the text. He completed the first copy (انهاه مؤلفه تبييضا , fol. 143) on Sunday , 10th Rajab , 956.

Begins: احمد الله على نعمه .... و بعد فهذا تعليق لطيف وضعته على المقدمة الموضوعة فى العربية تاليف سيدنا و صاحبنا العالم الورع الزاهد شمس الدين الخ.

The original treatise commences: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... و بعد فهذه مقدمة فى علم العربية متممة لمسائل الجرومية يكون (!) واسطة بينها و بين غيرها ( من ) المطولات الخ.

Plainly written. Corrections, various readings, and some notes, on the margin .

II. Foll. 143v. – 185. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on Sa’d al-dîn Mas’ûd b. ‘Omar Taftâzânî׳s (d. A.H. 792) Grammar , ارشاد الهادى , by MUḤAMMAD B. SHARÎF ḤUSAINÎ (son of the celebrated Jurjânî) , who wrote it A.H. 823. See Ḥ. Kh. i. 254; cf. Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 189.

This Commentary is entitled الرشاد فى شرح الارشاد . Plainly written. Imperfect at the end.

“Purchased in Ispehan , July 25th , 1811.” ¹

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

¹ In the hand-writing of Lockett.