[Sharḥ Marāḥ al-arwāḥ, 1132, i.e. 1719 or 1720].

Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl on Ibn Masʻūd's textbook of Arabic grammar, Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. Preceded by a very brief anonymous commentary listing the maṣādir of the verbs discussed in the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ and followed by a witty poem.Origin: As appears in colophon on p.247, Sharḥ ʻAbd al-Raḥmān copied by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥasan al-Wāfī [Mustafa Hasan Vafi]. Transcription finished 1132 [1719 or 20]. As appears on p.6, opening work completed 1175 [1761 or 2].Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 62. Marah al-arwah."Binding: Pasteboards covered in laid paper with red-brown leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins ; Type II binding (with flap) ; dark blue-green paper over envelope flap ; upper board lining and interior of envelope flap in pink-tinted laid paper, lower board lining in yellow-tinted laid paper ; upper and lower covers and bear traces of blind-stamped scalloped mandorla, with frame in a series of s-shaped stamps defined by tooled fillets ; design continues on envelope flap ; doublures (board linings) also bear blind-stamped scalloped mandorla with accompanying pendants and cornerpieces, along with border in a series of tooled fillets ; design continues on interior of envelope flap ; sewn in yellow thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red and green, in poor condition ; overall in very poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather (particularly at foreedge flap), severe delamination of boards, staining, upper cover detaching at spine, some negative draw in upper cover, etc. ; various repairs, also damaged.Support: European laid paper with 12 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 24 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark with crown above bar above grapes or pendant ; lightly sized and burnished.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviations symbols rubricated ; some notabilia and marginal corrections also in red ink ; textual dividers in the form of red commas.Script: Naskh ; on main clear Turkish hand, some sections likely supplied in other hands ; mainly serifless ; very slight effect of tilt to the left, occasionally more exaggerated ; mainly closed counters ; occasional hāʼ mudghamah looking like two inverted commas ; occasional very slight effect of words descending to baseline ; many descenders tapered ; final yāʼ and alif maqsūrah mardūdah ; some variation in line thickness.Layout: Written in 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, I (2), 11 V(112), IV (120), III (126) ; chiefly quinions ; final three leaves originally left blank ; lacks proper catchwords but but last word of final line on the verso of each leaf is usually repeated at the beginning of the first line on the following recto ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.239-240).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت هذه النسخة الشريفة المباركة الميمونة بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد اضعف العباد مصطفى بن حسن الوافي غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه في سنة اثنى وثلاثون ومائة والف من جهرة [هجرة] النبوية تمت تم تم تم"Explicit: "لكنه لا يعده ايضا لمتابعة للمفرد والذي اجتمع فيه اعلالان اذا اعل عينه [؟] والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب"Incipit: [Sharḥ al-Marāḥ] "الحمد لله الذي اطلعنا على كتابه بعلوم العربية والتصريف وحفظ كلامه عن التبديل والتغيير والتحريف وجعل التثبت به بمراح الارواح ... اما بعد فان العبد الذليل عبد الرحمن بن خليل يقول لما اسبغ الله على عباده نعماء لا يحصى عددها ... ومن لطفه علي وافضاله الي ترقي امر بعض اولادي الى قراءة مراح الارواح ... شرحت شرحا يحتوي متنا"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.3. p.248-p.250 : [originally left blank, now carries Qaṣīdah malīḥah fī al-nafs].2. p.7-p.247 : Sharḥ al-Marāḥ / ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl al-Rūmī.1. p.4-p.6 : Shayʼan lil-maṣādir al-madhkūrah fī Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of a commentary by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khalīl on Ibn Masʻūd's textbook of Arabic grammar, Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. Preceded by a very brief anonymous commentary listing the maṣādir of the verbs discussed in the Marāḥ al-arwāḥ and followed by a witty poem.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired by purchase (funds donated by Horace Rackham).Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 62. Marah al-arwah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "333" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; on paper (blue-tinted) pasted on 'title page' (p.7), 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 اليه عز شانه السيد عبد الله اديب الشهير بجنت زاده القاضي بمدينة ارضروم في سنة اثنى وستين ومائتين والف" ; also on 'title page' (p.7) ownership statement in red ink reads "ملكته في سنة ١١٧٥" ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections ; occasional notabilia (side-heads) often rubricated