Grammar [IO Bijapur 134]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 134 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 969 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 969. B 134. Size 81/4 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 15. Nine lines in a page. The first portion of a treatise in explanation of various verses of puzzling grammatical construction, الالغاز or اللغزيات . No title found. The author calls himself حسين بن (الحسن1) الملقّب بجمال الابرزى, and dedicates his work to Abu’l -fawâris Shâh Shujâ’ (the Muẓaffaride, of Fârs, d. A.H. 788). Begins: الحمد لله الذى نوّر العالَمين بانوار علوم العالِمين .... اما بعد فقد شاع بين ( 2 . fol ) اهل العلم منظومات فيها من جهة الاعراب تشكيكات الخ. The first verse explained is, حدثونى أنّ زيدٍ ضاحكا قائل فى حبّ هند تُسعف Well written. Ends abruptly. Inscribed: منظومه در علم نحو ; cf. Catal . 236, xx. 1 Added as a correction ( صح ) .