Grammar [IO Islamic 2971]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2971 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 982 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 982. 2971. Size 91/2 in. by 7 in.; foll. 60. Seventeen and more lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-21. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on ‘Abd al-ḳâhir Jurjânî’s العوامل (see the preceding no.) by MUḤAMMAD ṢÂDIḲ b. Darwîsh Muḥammad . It is entitled جامع القواعد . Begins: نحمدك يا من جعلت علم النحو ميزان الاعراب و البناء الخ. Plainly written in Nasta’lîḳ, by Muḥammad Maudûd b. Rafî’ al-dîn Ḥusainî, who completed it on 8th Muḥarram, 1090, at Ujain (?- فى بلدة الاحين ) . II. Fol. 22. A poem ascribed to IBN ḤÂJIB (d. A.H. 646), in which all the nouns substantives which are feminine by usage are enumerated, القصيدة التى جمع فيها ابن الحاجب المؤنثات السماعية. Begins: نفسى الفداء لسائل وافانى بمسائل فاحت كغصن البان III. Foll. 23-59. Glosses on Ibn Ḥâjib’s الكافية ( see no. 901) , by an unknown author. Imperfect at the end. Beginning: الحمد لله رب العالمين .... قال الشيخ ابن الحاجب بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قلت افتتح كتابه تبركا و اقتداء بكتاب الله تعالى الخ. Written by different hands. Ends abruptly. On the last page begins the مختصر الميزان , a treatise on Logic ( see no . 575). Seal and signature of Charles Boddam, Calcutta, May 1st, 1787.