Grammar [IO Islamic 2218] مغنى اللبيب

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2218 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 966 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 966. 2218. Size 81/4 in. by 6 in.; foll. 443. Seventeen lines in a page. IBN HISHÂM’S (Jamâl al-dîn ‘Abdallah b. Yûsuf Anṣârî, d. A.H. 761) مغنى اللبيب . Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 655; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 328 sqq.; De Jong, Cat. Bibl. Acad. 37; Cat. Mus. Brit. 239; etc. The greater part of the work, as far as fol. 316, is well written; the remainder is executed in an inferior style, by one ‘Abd al-bâḳi, who finished his task in Rajab, 1156. Notes in the earlier portion. The first leaf supplied by a modern hand. [College of Fort William, 1825.]