Grammar [IO Islamic 294]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 294 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 891 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 891. 294. Size 83/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 126. Thirteen lines in a page. A Commentary (by قوله ) on the preceding work, entitled الضوء ; by Tâj al-dîn (alias Sirâj al-dîn) Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Saif ISFARÂ’INÎ (flourished about the end of the seventh century). Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 583; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 158; Cat. Bodl. ii. 436; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 317; etc. It was printed at Lakhnau, about A.D. 1850, with glosses and a preface, which is wanting in all the MSS. Clearly written in Nasta’lîḳ. The colophon runs as follows: انا المسمّى بمير سيد محمد منعم كتبت هذه النسخة المسماة بضوء فى شرح النسخة المصباح بقراة شيخ محمد جان ولد شيخ خيرالله ابن شيخ عبد الوالى القنوجى الفاروقى مالكه هو الذى كتبت هذه النسخة الخ. Some notes. Coloured lines round the pages. Injured by insects. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang. [Tippu.]