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Manuals on Arabic and Persian grammar

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Collection of works on Arabic and Persian grammar

1. ff. 1-14
Title: Mīzān-i manẓūmah
Title: ميزان منظومه

Incomplete fragment of a versified version of the treatise Mīzān on Arabic grammar, focussing on the conjugation of regular verbs

The author's name is stated enigmatically in one of the couplets as: KDYKQY (?)

Not dated

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
2. ff. 15-68
Title: Naẓm-i nīk
Title: نظم نيك

Versified manual of Arabic grammar attributed to Mawlavī ʿIṣmat Allāh ibn Aʿẓam ibn ʿAbd al-Rasūl Sahāranpūrī, completed 1070/1659-60

Copious annotations

Not dated

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
3. ff. 70v-74r
Author:

Elementary manual on Persian grammar, lacking title or details on author

Scribe: Mullā Ṣāliḥ ibn Mullā Aḥmad

Dated: 9 Z̲ū al-ḥijjah 1112/1701, at Daulatabad

Language(s): Persian
4. ff. 75-161
Title: Kitāb al-maṣārif
Title: كتاب المصارف

Persian treatise on Arabic grammar, lacking title or details on author

Dated: 5 Ramaz̤ān [10]59/1658

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
5. ff. 163r-193
Author: Fakhr al-Dīn Zarrādī Dihlavī فخرالدين زرادى دهلوى
Title: Kitāb al-Z̤arrādī
Title: كتاب الضرادى

Persian treatise on the conjugation of Arabic verbs by Fakhr al-Dīn Zarrādī (here spelt Z̤arrādī) Dihlavī (active 1253-1337 or 1347)

Copious annotations in margins

Calligraphic naskh

Not dated

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
6. ff. 196-220
Author: Ẓahīr ibn Maḥmūd ibn Masʿūd al-ʿAlavī ظهير بن محمود بن مسعود العلوي
Title: Zubdat fī ʿilm al-ṣarf
Title: زبدۃ في علم الصرف

Treatise on Arabic grammar: laws of permutation or inflection applying to irregular or weak verbs

Not dated

Calligraphic naskh and nastaʿlīq

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
7. ff. 221-228
Author: Jurjānī, ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān جرجاني ، عبد القاهر ابن عبد الرحمن
Title: Sharḥ al-ʿavāmil al-miʾah
Title: شرح العوامل المائة

Anonymous commentary on Jurjani's treatise on particles in Arabic grammar

Dated: 15 Z̲ū al-qaʿdah 1149/1737

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 228 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 241 × 146 mm.
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History

Origin: 5 Ramaz̤ān [10]59 to 15 Z̲ū al-qaʿdah 1149 (1658 - 1737) AH ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/24_f010r

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