Grammar [IO Islamic 1826]

• Grammar.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1826 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 959 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

959.

1826. Size 10 in. by 7 in.; foll. 181. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A Commentary on Ibn Mâlik’s الالفيّة , by his son, BADR AL-DÎN ABU ‘ABDALLAH MUḤAMMAD b. Muḥammad (d. A.H. 686). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 407; Cat Mus. Brit. 237; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 170; etc.

Begins: قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة بدر الدين الخ .

Well written by several hands. Dated A.H. 957.

The original verses are marked with ص . and the commentary with ش . Notes of later date.

The notes and seals of the following successive owners are on the title-page: Muḥammad b. ‘Alî …, a pupil of Bahâ al-dîn Âmulî; Aḥmad .. ‘ÂmulÎ; Muḥammad Hâdi b. Ḥâjjî Muḥammad Ḥasanî , a “servant’’ of ‘Âlamgîr , who acquired the book, A.H. 1037, at Akbarâbâd, and presented it to his son Ibrâhîm A.H. 1088, at Shâhjahânâbâd.

[Johnson.]