Grammar [IO Islamic 2061]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2061 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 937 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 937. 2061. Size 9 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 346. From eleven to fifteen lines in a page. An abridged and improved edition of Shihâb al-dîn b. Shams al-dîn b. ‘Omar Zâwulî Daulatâbâdî’s Glosses ( حواشى ) on the Kâfiyah. It is in the form of a شرح ممزوج . The author is not mentioned. See Cat. St. Petersb. 161 sq. (where, however, the work is described as glosses on Daulatâbâdî), and Casiri, i. 20. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 9, 18. The commentary begins: انما لم يبدأ الشيخ رحمة الله عليه فى هذه الرسالة بحمد الله الخ. Plainly written. Of the eleventh century. Imperfect at the end. On the margin are the glosses of MIYÂN ILÂHDÂD (ميان الهداد) . Slightly injured by insects. Foll. 2 and 3 should be transposed. The title-page has the inscription الجزو الاول من فاضل الهندى , which seems to be derived from the preface, where Daulatâbâdî is styled فاضل من افاضل الهند ( fol. 3 ).