Matn al-Mughnī, [16th century?].

Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Origin: Lacks dated scribal colophon (though lengthy authorial colophon appears on p.290) ; paper and hand may suggest 16th century.Accompanying materials: a. Inventory cataloguing slip in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas. -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From fore edge flap label, "IL 348" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (resembling marbled [ebru] design in blue and white) with red leather over spine and light brown leather over fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in light orange European laid paper (three hats watemark) ; sewing now gone, though two stations visible ; overall in quite poor condition with upper cover entirely lost and lower cover and envelope flap fully detached, lifting and losses of leather, staining, etc.Support: non-European (likely Arab) laid paper with 8 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines (vertical) grouped in threes with 6-9 mm. between chains and 46-55 mm. between groups ; medium cream in color, dense and sturdy, well-burnished to glossy (burnisher's marks visible) ; staining and tidelines ; some repairs.Decoration: Keywords, section headings, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red inverted commas.Script: Naskh-nastaʻlīq (talik) ; elegant hand ; serifless and quite rounded with slight effect of words descending to baseline (occasionally more exaggerated), elongation of horizontal strokes, occasional sweeping descenders.Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 14 V(140), II+1 (145) ; almost exclusively quinions ; leaf now affixed to 'title page' (p.1) and final leaf (p.290, to cover added text) ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization.Explicit: "وقد مر ذلك ولو ذكرت احرف الجر ودخول بعضها على بعض في معناه لجاء من ذلك امثلة كثيرة"Incipit: "ومنه العون والتوفيق اما بعد حمدا لله على افضاله والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله فان اولى ما تقترحه القرائح واعلى ما تجنح الى تحصيله الجوانح ما يتيسر به فهم كتاب الله المنزل ويتضح به معنى حديث نبيه المرسل ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of Ibn Hishām’s (d.761/1360) celebrated treatise on Arabic syntax, arranged by particle.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.Occasional glosses and marginal corrections