Copied in ʻAyntāb, A.H. 1198-1200 [A.D. 1784-1786]. Fols. 150; 21 x 15.5 cm.; written surface 12.5-16 x 7-9 cm.; 9-19 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi and Fārisi, with catchwords; entries in red. A collection containing: 1. Alfīyat al-ʻIrāqī, by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʻIrāqī, a versification, in thousand verses, of Kitāb ʻUlūm al-ḥadīth, a work on the science of tradition by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, A.H. 643 [A.D. 1245]. 2. A short treatise on Persian grammar dealing with the verb kardan. 3. Ḥall mushkilāt al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ, by ʻAbd al-Muḥsin al-Qayṣarī, a commentary on ʻArūḍ al-Andalusī. 4. A commentary by ʻAbd Allāh al-Najīb ibn Muḥammad ibn Shaʻbān on al-Mafātīḥ al-durrīyah fī ithbāt al-qawānīn al-Darīyah, a work on Persian grammar by Muṣṭafá ibn Abī Bakr al-Sīwāsī. For al-Mafātīḥ see Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6845. Marginal and interlinear notes. MS in fair condition; Arabic leather binding; blind tooling. Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
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