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Arabic Language -- Grammar

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Fragments, 15th(?)-19th centuries

 Series
Identifier: Or Ms 687
Scope and Contents Or Ms 687 consists of 52 fragments or groupings of fragments, mostly manuscripts, with a few printed items.See individual catalogue entries for more details. The titles and descriptions have been transcribed from the original wrappings, although it is important to note that the previous cataloguer did not have specialized knowledge, resulting in many entries being vague or potentially inaccurate. Nevertheless, we have made the choice to share them online to make these documents...
Dates: 15th(?)-19th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chronicles by Rashid al-Din. Shows text with central miniature depicting the Sultan Luhrasp seated on a throne, surrounded by attendants. [Please click twice to see the full manuscript]
Detail of page from the Compendium of Chro...

Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

 Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates: 10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Or Ms 35: مغنی اللبیب عن کتب الاعاریب Mughnī al-labīb 'an kutub al-a'ārīb, undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 35
Scope and Contents

A famous treatise on grammar, by Jamāl al-Dīn 'Abd-allāh b. Yūsuf b. Hishām al-Anṣārī (d. 761 A.H., 1359 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 14th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 36: رسالة في علم الاعراب Risālat fī 'ilm al-i'rāb, 1225 A.H., 1810 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 36
Scope and Contents

It is stated in the introduction that in Hindustan some learned grammarian had written a work based on the grammar of al-Shaykh al-'Allāmah lbn al-Ḥajib (d. 646 A.H., 1248 C.E.), and because this manuscript was getting much injured through age, the present copy was made. The work treats etymology and syntax, in good readable style.

Dates: 1225 A.H.; 1810 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 37: نادر البیان في علم النحو Nādir al-bayān fī 'ilm al-naḥw, 1150 A.H., 1737 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 37
Scope and Contents

A treatise on grammar by Aḥmad b. al-Mas'ūd al-Ḥusaynī al-Harkāmī.

Dates: 1150 A.H.; 1737 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 38: عباب اللباب في توضیح دقائق للاعراب 'Ubāb al-lubāb fī tawḍīḥ daqā'iq al-i'rāb, 843 A.H., 1434 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 38
Scope and Contents

A commentary upon the Lubāb al-I'rāb of Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Sayf Isfarā'īnī Faḍl, who flourished about the end of the seventh century A.H. The author is not mentioned.

Dates: 843 A.H.; 1434 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 39: المتداوله لدرس النحو al-Mutadāwilah li dars al-naḥw, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 39
Scope and Contents

An entire and correct edition of five famous books upon Arabic grammar collated with the most ancient Mss. in India by Lieut. (afterwards Col.) John Baillie. The work is in two volumes, Or Ms 39 and 40.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

Or Ms 40: المتداوله لدرس النحو al-Mutadāwilah li dars al-naḥw, undated

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 40
Scope and Contents

An entire and correct edition of five famous books upon Arabic grammar collated with the most ancient Mss. in India by Lieut. (afterwards Col.) John Baillie. The work is in two volumes, Or Ms 39 and 40.

Dates: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

الکفایه al-Kifāyah, 1223 A.H., 1808 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 123
Scope and Contents

An anonymous treatise in Persian on nouns in the Arabic grammar.

Dates: 1223 A.H.; 1808 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

المفصّل في صنعة الاعراب al-Mufaṣṣal fī ṣan'at al-i'rāb, undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 31
Scope and Contents

A treatise on grammar, dealing chiefly and extensively with etymology and syntax, by the celebrated Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmud b. 'Umar al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538 A.H., 1143 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 12th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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