Grammar [IO Bijapur 32]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 32 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 894 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 894. B 32. Size 7 in. by 5 in.; foll. 38. Eleven lines in a page. A fragment, containing the concluding portion2 of the grammatical treatise اللباب , by Tâj al-dîn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Saif ISFARÂ’INÎ FÂḌIL, the author of the preceding work. See Ḥ. Kh. v. 302;3 Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i 173. The text is accompanied by copious glosses, which were compiled by an unknown author, A.H. 736, at Nîsâbûr. Carefully written, finished at the beginning of Rabî’ I., 799, by Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥamd b. ‘Abdallah البلبانى مولدا النيسابورى اصلا .4 The first words are: نحو رايت القوم . On the last two pages is added a short treatise on the meaning of the grammatical term اللفظ . It begins: هذه فائدة تشتمل على مقدّمة و تقسيم و خاتمة‘ المقدّمة اللفظ قد يوضع لشخص بعينه الخ . The خاتمة consists of twelve تنبيهات . Well written, by a different hand, with marginal notes. Worm-eaten. 2 From fol. 93 of the original pagination. 3 Ḥ. Kh., however, confounds this work with the لب الالباب , see no. 899. 4 See regarding him, Ḥ. Kh. iii. 362, iv, 445.