Grammar [IO Islamic 522]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 522 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 958 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 958. 522. Size 63/4 in. by 41/2 in.; foll. 51. Eleven lines in a page. الخلاصة فى يد ( sic ) للشيخ الامام العالم الفاضل الكامل ابى عبدالله محمد بن مالك الطآئى الجيانى تغمده الله برحمته و اسكنه فى جنته. IBN MÂLIK’S (Abu ‘Abdallah Muḥammad b. ‘Abdallah, d. A.H. 672) Grammar in verse, commonly called الالفيّة . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 407; Cat. St. Petersb., p. 172; etc. Published by De Sacy (Orient. Transl. Fund), 1833. Printed at Bûlâḳ, A.H. 1253, and at Lakhnau, A.H. 1263. A fine copy, with vowel-points. Has the following colophon: تمت الالفيّة الموسومة بالخلاصة بحمد الله وعونه و حسن توفيقه فى شهر شوال عام ثمان و عشرين و سبع مائة الحمد لله وحده الخ. Headings in gold; the above inscription richly ornamented. Somewhat injured by damp. A charm against fever, and a general charm, which is ascribed to Ja’far Ṣâdiḳ, and copied from the handwriting of ‘Alî b. ‘Abd al al-‘Âli, are added at the end. Seal and signature of Nawwâb ‘Abd al-muḳîm Khân (of the twelfth century). [Tippu.]