Grammar [IO Islamic 381]

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 381 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 912 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

912.

381. Size 103/4 in. by 7 in.; foll. 217. Thirty-five lines in a page.

A large Commentary ( by قوله ) on the Kâfiyah, by RAḌÎ AL-DÎN (alias Najm al-dîn) Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan Astarâbâdî, a Shî’ite, who completed it in Shawwâl, 686. Cf.Ḥ.Kh.v.7. Other copies, Casiri, i. 22, no. xci., and (probably) Aumer, Hdss. Münch., no. 715. The second part is to be found in Cat. St. Petersb. 160. Printed at Lakhnau, A.H. 1280. Cf. Stewart’s Catal., p. 126.1

Begins: الحمد لله الذى جلّت آلاؤه عن ان تُحاط بعدّ . The author says subsequently: و بعد فقد طلب الىّ من اعتنى بصلاح حاله ... تعليقَ ما يجرى مجرى الشرح على مقدّمة ابن الحاجب ( فى النحو 1 ) عند قرآتها علىّ فانتدبت له ;

and further on : فان جآء مرضياً فببركات الجناب المقدّس الغَرَوىّ 2 صلوات الله على مشرّفه لاتفاقه فيه الخ.

The first gloss begins: قوله الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد اعلم ان الكلم جنس الكلمة كتمر و تمرة الخ ;

and the work concludes (fol. 217): هذا آخر شرح المقدمة و الحمد لله .. وقد تم تمامه و اختتم اختتامه فى الحضرة الغرويّة على مشرفها صلوات رب الغرّة و سلامُه فى شوال سنة ست و ثمانين و ستمائة .It is followed by an appendix , which begins : و لنذكر احكام هآء السكت و ان كان المصنف ذكر بعضها فى التصريف الخ.

A good copy. Written in a small but clear hand.

The last fol. is wanting. Slightly injured by damp.

The title-page contains the note of the owner, Ḥâjjî Muḥammad b. Maḥmûd Farâhî, of Harât, dated A.H. 821, and beginning: حمداً لله تعالى على ما رضّانى عنه عزّ اسمه بتملّك هذا الكتاب الرضىّ المرضىّ الخ.

[Tippu.]

1 It is not contained in Cod. Lugd. lxvii., as is stated in Catal. Lugd. i., p. 37, following Weijers, Orientalia, i. 355 sqq. The work in question is a commentary by the author himself. Compare Aumer, no. 714.

1 From the margin.

2 A gloss on the margin says: منسوب الى غَرا و هى المشهد الرضوى . Then the place would be Mashhad in Khurâsân.