Grammar [IO Islamic 1525]

<ul> <li><strong>Grammar.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1525&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 976&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/270/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>976</strong></a>.</p> <p>1525. Size 12 in. by 7 in.; foll. 244. Mostly seventeen lines in a page.</p> <p>A Commentary ( ممزوج ) on the preceding work, by WAJ&Icirc;H B. NAṢR ALLAH B. &lsquo;IM&Acirc;D &lsquo;ALAW&Icirc; , who wrote it during the reign of Maḥm&ucirc;d Sh&acirc;h (III.) b. Laṭ&icirc;f b. Muẓaffar Sh&acirc;h, of Gujar&acirc;t (A.H. 944-961). A commentary by Waj&icirc;h al-d&icirc;n, of Gujar&acirc;t, is mentioned in the Leyden MS. of the original work (Cat. Lugd. i. 48<em>n</em>.).</p> <p>The work has no special preface. It begins, after a <em>Basmalah</em> and the shortest possible <em>Ḥamdalaḥ</em>: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله افتتح كتابه ببسم الله ثم بالحمد لله تيمّنا بالكتاب العزيز الخ.</p> <p>The author concludes as follows: تم تاليف الشرح بعون الله الملك الولى للفقير وجيه بن نصر الله بن عماد العلوى وقت الظهر فى الثانى عشر من شهر الربيع الاول شهر مولد النبى صلى الله عليه و على آله و اصحابه و امته اجمعين في عهد مولانا السلطان محمود شاه بن لطيف بن مظفر شاه الراحم على الخلق سيما العلماء و الفقير آمين.</p> <p>Clearly written in Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, the beginning different from the rest. The colophon runs as follows: كتبت هذا الكتاب فقير احمد باشنده بيران وهار ( ؟) .</p> <p>Notes in the earlier portion. Foll. 107 and 108 should be transposed.</p> <p>The first six leaves contain various notes and extracts, amongst them the Ḳaṣ&icirc;dah of ṬANṬAR&Acirc;N&Icirc; (on which see no. 803, I.).</p> <p>Fol. 4 should be placed after fol. 1. Worm-eaten.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>