Grammar [IO Bijapur 10]

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 10 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 899 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

899.

B 10. Size 11 in. by 7 in.; foll. 209. Five lines in a page.

A concise Grammar, entitled (fol.5v.) لبّ الالباب فى علم الاعراب . The author of it is not mentioned, but, according to the beginning, it appears to be identical with the work mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. v. 306, no. ١١۰۷٣. Ḥ. Kh. ascribes it first to Tâj al-dîn Isfrâ’inî, but quotes subsequently the contradictory statement of a commentary, in which the author is named SHAMS AL-DÎN ‘ABD AL-MUN’IM B. MUḤAMMAD BARKUMÎNÎ. The latter statement is more probable, as Ḥ. Kh. evidently confounds the present treatise with Isfarânî’s اللباب , before mentioned (no. 894). This would appear from his general description of the latter work ( و هو كتاب وجيز الخ , p. 303) , which in fact is taken from the preface of the present treatise. 1 The author of it cannot be later than the eighth century.

He dedicates his work to a Wazîr (صاحب ديوان الممالك ) , named Sham al-dîn. No other copy known.

The preface begins: الحمد لله الموجد من العدم ׳ المستأثر بالقدم ׳ و الصلوة .... و بعد فلمّا رايتُ بمصداقِ اتحافُ الملوك احدى الدولتين أن أُتحفَ حضرةً هى خيرةُ الجنان الخ , and the treatise commences (fol. 6): اللفظ الموضوع لمعنى مفرد هو الكلمة او مركّبٍ فيه الاسناد و هو الحكم المفيد باحد جزئيه على الآخر الكلام الخ.

Boldly written, with vowel-points added. Copious marginal notes. Dated A.H. 784.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1034.

Cat. 235, iv.

1 Hence arose the incongruities noticed by Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 173, note 4.