Grammar [IO Bijapur 8]

Grammar. This manuscript is now IO Bijapur 8 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 981 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 981. B 8. Size 8 in. by 51/4 in.; foll. 114. Eleven and seventeen lines in a page. I.Foll. 1-14. The treatise on the Grammatical Regents, العوامل , by ‘ABD AL-ḲÂHIR JURJÂNÎ (d. A.H. 471 or 474). Cf. the editions of Baillie (Five Books on Arabic Grammar, Calcutta, 1802), and Lockett (Calcutta, 1814). On the last page begins a Persian treatise. II.Foll. 15-50. The Grammar الهداية . See no. 941. III.Foll. 51-114. A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on Sajâwandî’s grammatical treatise (see no. 889), by an unknown author. Entitled الدرر . The preface begins: الحمدلله الذى تفرّد بالعظمة و الجلال و الاكرام . The name of Sajâwandî does not occur. His work is only spoken of as هذا المختصر . The last chapter is omitted. Dated 10th Rajab. Plainly written by different hands. Of the tenth and eleventh centuries. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1054 , from Khushḥâl. Seal of Muḥammad ‘Âdil Shâh. Cat. 235, xi.