Grammar [IO Bijapur 29]

Grammar.

This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 29 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 938 here with further notations and hyperlinks].

938.

B 29. Size 103/4 in. by 81/4 in.; foll. 321. From twenty-three to twenty-seven lines in a page.

A large Commentary ( by قوله ) on the Kâfiyah, in which reference is made to Ibn Ḥâjib׳s own commentary on that work. 1 The author is not ascertained; perhaps he is NAJM AL-DÎN SA’ÎD ‘AJAMÎ, who, according to Ḥ. Kh. v. 9, wrote a voluminous commentary on that of the author.

There are also cited in this work, Ibn Ḥâjib׳s commentary on his ارجوزة ( that is , the versification of the Kâfiyah, mentioned in Ḥ. Kh. v. 7), and on المنظومة ( which probably means the same work) , but most frequently his commentary on Zamakhsharî’s Mufaṣṣal 2 ( قال المصنف فى شرح المفصل ) . Rukn al-dîn Ḥadîthî, who wrote a commentary on the Kâfiyah,3 Zanjânî (d. A.H. 655), Ibn Mâlik (d. A.H. 672), and Jârabârdî (d. A.H. 746), are also quoted.

A good copy, written in a current hand, of the eighth century. Emended and collated with another MS.

A few leaves are wanting both at the beginning and end. The first gloss is:

قوله الكلام ما تضمن [ كلمتين بالاسناد 1] يعنى الكلام اللفظ الذى يتضمن كلمتين بالاسناد اللفظ بمثابة الجنس .

The book is very much damaged by white-ants. Inscribed (fol. 319) شرح الشرح ; cf. Catal. 236, xxi.

1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 7, and Aumer, Hdss. Münch., no. 714.

2 See Ḥ. Kh. vi. 37, and Aumer, no. 693.

3 Ḥ. Kh. v. 19.

1 The words in brackets are form the margin (صح).