Grammar [IO Islamic 2322]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2322 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 968 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 968. 2322. Size 9 in. by 61/4 in.; foll. 137. Seventeen lines in a page. A Commentary (ممزوج ) on Ibn Hishâm’s (d. A.H. 761) Grammar, قطر النَدا , by Shihâb al-dîn Aḥmad b. Jamâl .. FÂKIHÎ, 1 who wrote it A.H. 924. It is entitled مجيب النِدا . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. iv. 563; Aumer, Hdss. Münch . 331 sq.; Cat. Mus. Brit. 692b. Printed at Bûlâḳ, A.H. 1253. The preface begins as in Aumer, no. 742. The commentary commences as follows: الكلمة بفتح الكاف و كسر اللام الخ. Plainly written. Completed on Sunday, 22nd Dhu’l-ḳa’dah, 1209, by Ḥâjjî Bakr b. Molla Ḥâjjî Ḥâmid Efendi. Notes. Muḥammad ׳Omar b. al-Ḥâjj Muḥammad Sa’îd Jamîlzâdah bought this book on 20th Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 1215. ׳׳Bagdad, January 18th , 1812. A. Lockett.׳׳ [College of Fort William, 1825.] 1 So the name is given in the inscription which is on the fly-leaf.