Grammar [IO Islamic 1478]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1478 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 920 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 920. 1478. Size 7 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 135. Seventeen lines in a page. A concise Commentary ( ممزوج ) on the Kâfiyah, identical with that described in Aumer, Hdss. Münch., p. 323, no. 717, i.e. الموشَّح of KHABÎṢÎ (Shams al-dîn Muḥammad b. Abu Bakr, who flourished in the seventh or eighth century). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 8; Cat. Mus. Brit. 232; Bibl. Sprenger. 1022. Written in a small clear hand. Dated 23rd Ramaḍân, 883. Several leaves are wanting after fol. 1. On the fly-leaf is written: شرح كافية النحو لملا جلال دوانى.