[al-Ghanī fī Sharḥ al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw, 1122, i.e. 1710].

Clear copy of the commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by the author's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Jārbardī (d.1345).Origin: As appears in colophon on p.230, copied by Aḥmad ibn Khiḍr (Ahmet bin Hızır) in Erzincan. Transcription completed first of Rabīʻ I 1122 [April 1710].Accompanying materials: Pink-tinted folded sheet with notes, etc. (paginated pp.59-60).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 158. Commentary on al-Mughni fi ilm al-nahw."Binding: Pasteboards covered in black leather (goat?) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla filled with symmetrical vegetal design (compare Déroche class. OSd) and accompanied by tooled rosette pendants and accents, as well as border in tooled fillets ; sewn in brown thread, two stations ; traces of worked endbands remain, core exposed ; in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, lifting of leather at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper of several types, varying in thickness but all well-sized and burnished, with some tinted (dark yellow) ; opening quires in a European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal) ; latter quires in a European laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermark with crown above bar (with initials) above pendant (resembling beads or grapes).Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; bold Eastern Anatolian hand ; virtually serifless though occasional head-serifs appear on lām, free-standing alif, etc. ; pointed in the form of a curved line or inverted caret ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred with bar (shaqq) elongated.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 10 V(100), V+1 (111), II+1 (116), i ; chiefly quinions ; final two leaves left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf and insert).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "قد تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة على يد اضعف العباد واحقر الطلاب اذا حضر له يعرف واذا غاب لم يذكر احمد بن خضر غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه في تاريخ سنة اثنى وعشرون ومائة والف في اول شهر ربيع الاول في يوم الاثنين في وقت الضحى في بلد ارزنجان في مدرسة كرككرك تمت تمت تمت تمت"Explicit: "قال السيد في شرح الكبير للكافية قوله وهو قليل اي والتنوين الغالي في كلام الفصحاء قليل والله اعلم بالصواب تمت الكتاب"Incipit: "الحمد لله الفاطر الحكيم القادر العليم ... فقد يقول العبد الضعيف ... محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن محمد العمري الميلان لما لم يكن للكتاب المسمى بالمغني في علم النحو شرح وهو من مصنفات استاذنا العلامة ... فخر الملة والدين احمد بن الحسين الجاپردي ... فقد خطر بالي ان اشرح له شرحا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Clear copy of the commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by the author's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Jārbardī (d.1345).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 158. Commentary on al-Mughni fi ilm al-nahw." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "337" in Western numerals on 'title page' (p.1) ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on 'title page' (p.1), a detailed waqf statement in the name of al-Sayyid ʻAbd Allāh Adīb (Abdullah Edip), known as Jannatʹzādah (Cennet-zade), qāḍī of Erzurum, accompanied by his seal, reads: "وقفت وقفا صحيحا شرعيا على ان لا يخرج من بيت الكتب الملتصق بداري الا لعلماء سكنوا بارضروم بكفيل مرعى اورهن قوي وانا الفقير السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; also on 'title page' (p.1) an octagonal seal impression in black ink ; extensive glosses ; occasional marginal corrections