Grammar [IO Islamic 2132]

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2132 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 954 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

954.

2132. Size 8 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 213. At first sixteen, afterwards from twenty-five to twenty-seven lines in a page.

كتاب المناهل الصافية المروى لذوى القلوب الصادية فى حل مشكلات معانى الشافية تاليف الشيخ العلامة الصدر الصمصامة الماجد الفاضل بدر المجالس و شمس المدارس لطف الله بن محمد بن الغياث رحمه الله تعالى الخ.

A Commentary (ممزوج) on the Shâfiyah , by LUṬF ALLAH b. Muḥammad b. al-Ghiyâth. This commentary is not mentioned anywhere. The name of the author and the above title do not actually occur in it, as there is no preface.

Begins, after a prolonged Basmalah:

اعلم انها (!) قد جرت عادة كثير من العلماء اذا الّفوا كتابا فى فنّ من فنون العلم ان يقدموا على الشروع فيه مقدمة تعين الطالب الخ.

Plainly written in different styles. The colophon runs as follows (fol. 210): تم الكتاب بمن الله العزيز الوهاب فى الساعة الثامنة من يوم السبت لست بقين من شهر الحجة لعله احد شهور سنة ١۰۸٤ و كان ذلك بخط الفقير ... الفضيل (1?) بن محمد بن الحسن الحلال ختم الله له بالصالحات الخ.

This copy was collated in Dhu’l- ḳa’dah, 1085. A cousin of the aforesaid Fuḍail (?) read the MS. before his mother Fâṭimah bint al-Ḥasan, in two sittings, A.H. 1088. Much used. Numerous notes. Headings in large characters and often in yellow.

To this is added the Ḳaṣîdah of AL-SHANFARA, with notes, written by the same hand.

The vacant leaves at the beginning (foll. 1-8) and at the end of the book are filled with various extracts, in poetry and in prose. Amongst them are some passages from the كتاب العواصم of Saiyid MUḤAMMAD B. IBRÂHÎM MURTAḌA, and a rhymed treatise on the Arabic metres, by ṢAFÎ AL-DÎN ḤILLÎ (fol. 5).

On the fly-leaf is a modern inscription, both in Arabic and English.

[College of Fort William, 1825.]

1 This word is indistinct.