Grammar [982]

• Grammar.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2971 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 982 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

982.

2971. Size 9^1/2 in. by 7 in.; foll. 60. Seventeen and more lines in a page.

I.Foll. 1-21. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on ‘Abd al-ḳâhir Jurjânî’s العوامل (see the preceding no.) by MUḤAMMAD ṢÂDIḲ b. Darwîsh Muḥammad . It is entitled جامع القواعد .

Begins: نحمدك يا من جعلت علم النحو ميزان الاعراب و البناء الخ.

Plainly written in Nasta’lîḳ, by Muḥammad Maudûd b. Rafî’ al-dîn Ḥusainî, who completed it on 8th Muḥarram, 1090, at Ujain (?- فى بلدة الاحين ) .

II. Fol. 22. A poem ascribed to IBN ḤÂJIB (d. A.H. 646), in which all the nouns substantives which are feminine by usage are enumerated, القصيدة التى جمع فيها ابن الحاجب المؤنثات السماعية.

Begins:

نفسى الفداء لسائل وافانى بمسائل فاحت كغصن البان

III. Foll. 23-59. Glosses on Ibn Ḥâjib’s الكافية ( see no. 901) , by an unknown author. Imperfect at the end.

Beginning: الحمد لله رب العالمين .... قال الشيخ ابن الحاجب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قلت افتتح كتابه تبركا و اقتداء بكتاب الله تعالى الخ.

Written by different hands. Ends abruptly.

On the last page begins the مختصر الميزان , a treatise on Logic ( see no . 575).

Seal and signature of Charles Boddam, Calcutta, May 1st, 1787.