Grammar [IO Islamic 1797]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1797 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 917 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 917. 1797. Size 11 in. by 6 in.; foll. 223. Seventeen lines in a page. Another Commentary ( by قوله ) on the Kâfiyah, by RUKN AL-DÎN Ḥasan b. Muḥammad Astrâbâdî Ḥasanî (d. A.H. 717 or 715). It is called الوافية or المتوسّط , being the middle-sized of the author׳s three commentaries. Cf. Ḥ. Kh. v. 7 ; Cat. Lugd. I. 38 sqq.; Fleischer, Cat. Lips. 341; Aumer, Hdss. Münch. 321; and above, no. 289. The commentary begins: قوله الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد اعلم ان معرفة هذا الحدّ الخ. Well written. Numerous glosses, chiefly by the two Saiyid Sharîf,1 are added in the earlier portion. Colophon (fol.218): تمت الكتاب المتوسط بعون الله سبحانه و تعالى بيد عبدالضعيف النحيف محمد عاقل ابن استاذى عبدالغفور بن مغفورى مرحومى عبد اللطيف الخ. Fol. 2 should be placed after 4. Foll. 219-223. A Persian treatise inscribed ىر بيان چهار كافى نماز بعد از جمعه. Fol. 223v. The beginning of a collection of traditions, ىر بيان سرخی موى شريف. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang.- ''College of Fort William, 1801.'' [Tippu.] 1 See Ḥ. Kh., l.c.