Grammar [IO Bijapur 6]

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 6 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 961 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

961.

B 6. Size 81/2 in. by 6 in.; foll. 145. Twenty-five lines in a page.

A fragment of another Commentary (ممزوج ) on the Alfîyah. The beginning, as far as the paragraph الفاعل , is wanting . This commentary is ascribed on the fly-leaf to ‘Abd al-raḥmân b. ‘Alî MAKÛDÎ, and this statement proves to be correct. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. i. 409; Casiri, i. 3, no. vi. (according to whom the author died , A.H. 807, at Fâs); Cat. Mus. Brit. 237; and Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 325. It was printed at Cairo, A.H. 1279.

The text is generally introduced by the words ثم قال , or by قوله .. , the latter being always in connexion with the preceding comments.

Conclusion: قال المولف خار الله له و لطف به قد اتينا على ما اردنا جمعه من الشرح و الاعراب و استوفينا 1 ما وعد به فى اول الكتاب فجاء شرحا مكمل المقاصد مسهل المعانى و الفوائد ينتفع به البادى و يستحسنه الشادى موافقا لما رويته موفيا بما اردت من اختصاره و قصدته فالحمد لله على ما منح من التيسير و التسهيل و فتح من التبصير و التكميل فهو حسبى و نعم الوكيل.

Written in a current hand, the last few foll. different from the rest. The text and the commentary not distinguished in the latter portion. Emended and collated with another MS. A note to the effect, that “Ibn Ḥajar” made this copy from Ramaḍân to 1st Shawwâl, at Makkah, which has been added at the end, at three different times, is hardly trustworthy. It is a correct copy, which was probably made in Arabia, in the ninth or tenth century. It has been in its present fragmentary state for more than two centuries.

Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1026 from Shâh Nawâz Khân.

Cat. 235, v.

1 Compare with this Ḥ. Kh., I. 8.