Grammar [IO Islamic 1406]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1406 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 941 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 941. 1406. Size 11 in. by 6 in.; foll. 132. Five lines in a page. A short Grammar, founded upon the Kâfiyah, by an unknown, but probably modern, author.2 Entitled هداية النحو . It forms the second volume of Baillie׳s Five Books upon Arabic Grammar, Calcutta, 1803. Cf. Stewart׳s Catal. 127, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 643. Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... اما بعد فهذا مختصر مضبوط فى النحو جمعت فيه مهمّات النحو على ترتيب الكافية الخ. Boldly written. Of the twelfth century. Foll. 128-131 belong to a different treatise. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. [Tippu.] 2 It is not probable, that it is one of the two works mentioned by Ḥ. Kh. vi. 496, under the same title.