Grammar [IO Islamic 501] الشافية

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 501 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 945 here with notations and hyperlinks].

945.

501. Size 61/2 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 171. Five lines in a page.

IBN ḤÂJIB’S (d. A.H. 646) الشافية , or treatise on Etymology and Orthography, which is a supplement to his Kâfiyah. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 1; Cat. St. Petersb. 154 sq [= Boris Andreevich Dorn, 1852, 154-55, entry no. CLXII].; Cat. Mus. Brit. 642 [ed. note = Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur : partem secundam codices Arabicos amplectentem, p. 642, no. MCCCXCII, Add. 23,432, the MS dated 1812]; etc. Printed at Calcutta, 1805 [i.e. Baillie, 1802-05], and (written glosses) at Lakhnau, A.H. 1266.

Boldly written, in two hands. Copious notes. Has the following colophon:

تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهّاب بخطّ العبد الضّعيف الرّاجى الى رحمة الله الودود مسعود ابن محمود المدعوّ بفريد الدين 1 فى يوم الاثنين وقت الضحى سنة ثمانين و سبعمائة

[Hastings.]

1 The last three words have been subsequently scored out.

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