Grammar [IO Islamic 999] تعليق الفرائد

Grammar. تعليق الفرائد

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 999 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 964 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

964.

999. Size 93/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 328. From seventeen to twenty-five lines in a page.

A large Commentary ( ممزوج ) on the preceding work, entitled تعليق الفرائد, by (Badr al-dîn) Muḥammad b. Abu Bakr b. ׳Omar Makhdûmî ( المخدومى ) 1 DAMÂMÎNÎ (d. A.H. 828). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 292, who gives an extract from the preface.

The author, who was a native of Egypt, wrote this commentary at Cambay, in Gujarât, whither he came A.H. 820, and he dedicated it to Sulṭân Nâṣir al-dîn Abu’l-fatḥ Aḥmad Shâh b. Sulṭân Muḥammad Shâh b. Sulṭân Muẓaffar Shâh (who reigned from A.H. 814 to 846 [= 1411-1442]). The work begins with a biographical notice of Ibn Mâlik, جمال الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن عبدالله بن عبدالله ايضا ابن مالك الطائى الاندلسى الجيّانى . Ibn Mâlik was born at Jaen, A.H. 600; he lived afterwards at Ḥamât, and at Damascus. He died in Sha’bân, 672, and was buried on Mount Ḳâsiyûn.

The authorities who handed down the text of the Tashîl to Damâmînî are mentioned by him as follows:

قلت وانا اروى كتاب التسهيل هذا عن شيخنا برهان الدين ابرهيم بن احمد بن عبد الواحد الشامى الضرير المقيم بجامع الاقمر من القاهرة المعزّية كان رحه اخبرنا به اجازةً قال اخبرنا الشيخ اثير الدين ابو حيّان سماعًا عليه قال اخبرنا ابن ابى الفتح البعلبكى اجازةً قال اخبرنا الامام جمال الدين بن مالك اجازةً

Clearly written in Nasta’lîḳ, by different hands. Dated 16th Jum. I., 1059. Notes at the beginning.

Slightly injured by insects. Foll. 5 and 8 should be transposed.

1 So the name is spelt in a marginal note derived from the author. Ḥ. Kh. gives the well-known patronymic المخزومى .