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Arabic Language -- Grammar

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Found in 17 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

 Collection
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

Muqaddima al-Ajurrumiyya [Treatise on Arabic grammar], 1130/31 A.H., 1718 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 680
Scope and Contents

A revised version of the Muqaddima al-Ajurrumiyya of Ibn Ajurrum, who was born in Morocco in AH 672 / 1273-4 CE. This work is a concise treatise on the inflection of words, and proved extremely important in the study of Arabic grammar. This manuscript copy was compiled by a Lebanese monk named Jibril while he was in prison for his religion.

Dates: 1130/31 A.H.; 1718 C.E.
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

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

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

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

الوافیه في شرح الکافیه al-Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah, undated copy (original text composed 13th-14th cent. C.E.)

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 33
Scope and Contents

A commentary upon al-Kāfiyah, a well-known grammar treatise of Ibn Ḥājib (d. 646 A.H., 1248 C.E.). A few pages at the end are missing. The author was Sayyid Rukn al-Dīn Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Astarābādī (d. 715 or 717 A.H., 1315 or 1317 C.E.).

Dates: undated copy (original text composed 13th-14th cent. C.E.)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia

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

شرح الالفیّة Sharḥ al-alfiyyah, 735 A.H., 1334 C.E.

 Item
Identifier: Or Ms 399
Scope and Contents

A very old and venerable copy of the Arabic commentary of Badr al-Dīn (Abū 'Abdallāh) Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin 'Abdallāh Ibn Malik al-Ṭūsī (died 686 A.H., 1287 C.E.) on his father, Abū 'Abdallāh Muḥammad bin 'Abdallah, commonly called Ibn Malik's (died 672 A.H., 1273-1274 C.E.) famous grammatical poem Khulaṣat fī al-naḥū.

Dates: 735 A.H.; 1334 C.E.
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia