Grammar [IO Islamic 2392] Anthology, including tracts in Persian

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2392 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 990 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

990.

2392. Size 71/4 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 175. Nineteen lines in a page.

I. Foll. 2-9. Glosses on Zamakhsharî’s رسالة التصرفات ( see the preceding no.) by an unknown author. Imperfect at the end.

Beginning:

قوله فصل فى الحروف تجر الاسماء فان قلت لم لم يصدر الشيخ رحمة الله عليه هذه الرسالة بالحمد لله الخ

Written in a small Nasta’lîḳ hand.

II. Foll. 10-49. ‘ISMAT ALLAH’S Commentary on the same treatise, identical with no. 989.

Clearly written in Nasta’lîḳ, by ترسن (؟) محمد اندخودى . Corrections and notes by the author on the margin. Injured by damp.

III. Foll. 67v.-82. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on Shams al-dîn Miṣrî’s treatise on Conjugation. It is entitled الرسالة البرهانية . The author is not known.

Begins:

الحمد لله الذى خلق الاشياء بقدرته ... و بعد فان كتاب الصرف للامام شمس الملة و الدين المصرى الخ

The original treatise commences:

الحمد لله على نعمائة .... و بعد فهذه جملة من تصريف الافعال الخ

Written like no. I.

IV. Foll. 83-160. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on ‘Izz al-dîn ‘Abd al-wahhâb Zanjânî’s (d. A.H. 655) treatise on Conjugation, مختصر التصريف , by (Sa’d al-dîn) Mas’ûd b. ‘Omar TAFTÂZÂNÎ (d. A.H.792). See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 208; Cat. St. Petersb. 150; Cat. Bodl. ii. 186 ; Aumer, Hdss. Münch . 336. Printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1253. Cf. no. 955, regarding the original work.

Plainly written, by Pîr Muḥammad b. ׳Ârif Shaikh Nasafî. Dated Dhu’l-ḥijjah, 973 [= June/July 1566]. Corrections and some notes on the margin. Worm-eaten.

Foll. 50-67 and 161-175. Persian tracts.

[Sir Charles Wilkins.]