Grammar [IO Islamic 2286]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2286 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 936 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 936. 2286. Size 8 in. by 6 in.; foll. 218. Mostly seventeen lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج) on the Kâfiyah, ascribed on the title-page 1 to MUḤAMMAD B. ‘IZZ AL-DÎN Mufti, and styled in another inscription, at the end, مصباح الراغب . Both these statements, however, are doubtful. Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين .. اعلم ان لفظ النحو له حقيقتان لغوية و اصطلاحية و يراد به احمد مقصدين الخ. Indifferently written, by several hands; only the concluding portion carefully executed. Of the twelfth century. Marginal notes. The last fol. wanting. The above two statements regarding the title and the author are combined in an English inscription. The name ׳׳Elliott׳׳ is written on the binding. [College of Fort William.] 1 Where it is called الحاشية على الكافية .