Grammar [IO Islamic 1192]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1192 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 965 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 965. 1192. Size 8 in. by 53/4 in.; foll. 14. Eleven lines in a page. كتاب الدرّة البهيّة نظم الاجروميّة لشيخ الاسلام بركة الانام شرف الدين يحيى بن ابى الخير الانصارى العِمْريطى الِمصْرِ ( sic ) نفعنا الله ببركته . A rhymed paraphrase of Ibn Ajurrûm׳s (Muḥammad b. Dâ’ûd Ṣinhâjî , d. A.H. 723) grammatical treatise, المقدمة الاجرومية , by Sharaf al-dîn Yaḥya b. Abu’l-khair Anṣârî ‘IMRÎṬÎ , who composed it A.H. 976. See Cat. Mus. 642, for a commentary on this work, and regarding the Ajurrûmîyah, Flügel, Hdss. Wien, i. 174, and Cat. St. Petersb. 169. This versification is in the metre Rajaz. The above date is given at the end of the work as follows (fol. 14): و فى جمادى سادس السبعينا * بعد انتهى تسع ماء سنينا . The author calls himself (ibid.): الشرف العمريطى . Plainly written with vowel-points. Of the twelfth century. [Gaikwar.]