Grammar [IO Bijapur 9]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 9 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 890 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 890. B 9. Size 71/2 in. by 5 in.; foll. 49. Seven lines in a page. Nâṣir b. ׳ Abd al-saiyid MUṬARRIZÎ’S (d. A.H. 610) Grammar, entitled المصباح . See Ḥ. Kh. v. 582; Cat. St. Petersb. 156; Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 156; etc. This treatise forms the first volume of Baillie’s Five Books on Arabic Grammar, Calcutta, 1802.The first chapter of it is also to be found in De Sacy’s Anthologio Grammaticale. Printed at Lakhnau, A.H. 1262. Well written in a large hand, with numerous notes. The colophon runs as follows: تمت يوم الاحد وقت الظهر بتاريخ عشر من شهر صفر سنة ١۰٣٣ مالكه ميرالچی . A defect after fol. 44. Cat. 235, xiii.