Grammar [IO Islamic 198]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 198 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 889 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 889. 198. Size 91/4 in. by 51/4 in.; foll.32. Ten lines in a page. A short treatise on Syntax and Etymology, ascribed to Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ṭaifûr SAJÂWANDÎ, who is apparently identical with Burhân al-dîn Abu’l-Faḍl Muḥammad1 b. Ṭaifûr Sajâwandî, who died about A.H. 560. See regarding him, Cat. Mus. Brit., Add. et Corr., p. 764, ad p. 86 ; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, iii. 60; and above, no. 46. The work has no special title. In the colophon it is styled الكتاب المسمى بالسجاوندى . Cf. Stewart’s Catal., p. 128, xxxix. Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... قال الشيخ الامام الزاهد محمد بن احمد بن طيفور السجاوندى نور الله قبره الكلام كله على ثلثة اضرب اسم و فعل و حرف جاء لمعنى فالاسم خبر و يُخبر عنه نحو ( 2 . fol ) زيد قائم الخ. It is divided into chapters, the last of which is inscribed باب النسبة . Plainly written. Dated Sunday, 17th Jum. I., 1189. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. [Tippu.] 1 Alias Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, see Ḥ. Kh. vii. 858.