[Sharḥ Mulḥat al-iʻrāb, 1050, i.e. 1640].

al-Ḥarīrī's (d.516/1122) didactic urjūzah on grammar, accompanied by commentary. Final folio bears a brief excerpt from al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah, or Miʼat ʻāmil, the popular grammar manual of ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī (d.1078?).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Library, Isl. Ms. 1035Origin: As appears in colophon on fol.90b, copied by Ibn Khayr al-Dīn Shāh Mīr Fatḥ Allāh Yaḥyá al-Ḥusaynī [?] (entered over expunged writing). Transcription finished ("fa-qad faragha min taswīd hādhā al-kitāb...") Wednesday, 20 or 24 Rabīʻ I 1050 [ca. 10 or 14 July 1640]. Scribal verses "كتبتك يا كتاب ولست ادري اذا ما مت من يقرأك بعدي صديقي ام حبيبي ام عدوي فسبحان الذي بالغيب يدري" flank colophon.Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no. 184Binding: Pasteboards covered green paper with red leather over spine and board edges / turn-ins ; Type III binding (without flap) ; boards unlined, exposed boards in a light lavender color, each with a portion of a printed label in gold, blue, and white Ottoman design in an inner or outer corner ; the boards were likely taken from a larger piece of material with this label (reused / recycled), the larger piece being divided into four with two pieces each being used to fashion the boards, carrying portions of the label with them ; former owners' inscriptions on interior of upper cover (exposed board) ; overall in somewhat poor condition with upper and lower covers detaching from spine (more pronounced with lower cover).Support: European laid paper with evenly spaced single chain lines running horizontally and spaced roughly 29 mm. apart ; laid lines running vertically and spaced roughly 9 laid lines per cm.Decoration: Keywords, section headings and abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke over some keywords) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas, three dots, numeral khamsah, etc. in black or red ; occasional overlining in red.Script: Naskh ; mainly an elegant Persianate or Iraqi hand ; essentially serifless with slight effect of words descending to baseline, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf), pointing in distinct or conjonied dots, curvilinear descenders ; headings and poetic verses being commented upon are in a much heavier, slightly larger script ; partially vocalized throughout.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page ; mainly single column, divided to two columns where poetic verses are transcribed ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling board evident).Collation: 3 IV (24), II (28), I (30), I+2 (34), III+1 (41), II(45), 5 IV (85), I (87), II (91) ; mainly quinions ; lacuna of fol.46b (p.92) marked "صحيح" ; catchwords present for certain sections of text only, elsewhere cut off or simply lacking ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "فقد فرغ من تسويد هذا الكتاب في يوم الاربع [كذا] عشرون من شهر ربيع الاول سنة الف وخمسين [؟] الهجرية النبوية عليه افضل الصلوات واكمل التحية على يد اقل عباد الله تراب اقدام المؤمنين ابن خير الدين شاه مير فتح الله يحيى الحسيني [؟] عفي عنهم امين"Explicit: "فتثقل الكلمة فلاجل ذلك اعدلوا الى الفتحة التي هي اخف الحركات فاعرف ذلك وقد تضمنت [كذا] ملحة الاعراب مودعة بدائع الآداب فانظر اليها نظر المستحسنين وحسن الظن بها واحسن وان تجد عيبا فسد الخللا فجل من لا فيه عيب وعلا والحمد لله على ما اولى فنعم ما اولى ونعم المولى ثم الصلوة بعد حمد الصمد على النبي المصطفى محمد واله وصحبه الاخيار والقانتين في الدجى الابرار"Incipit: "اقول من بعد افتتاح القول بحمد ذي الطول شديد الحول وبعده فافضل السلام على النبي سيد الانام واله الاطهار ... الحد ما يمنع المحدود من الخروج عن ما حد به ويمنع غيره من الدخول فيه ومنه اشتقاق حدود الدار والحد لغة المنع ومنه سمي البواب حدادا لمنعه الطارق من الدخول"Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,al-Ḥarīrī's (d.516/1122) didactic urjūzah on grammar, accompanied by commentary. Final folio bears a brief excerpt from al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah, or Miʼat ʻāmil, the popular grammar manual of ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī (d.1078?).Mode of access: Internet.Purchased in Egypt by Mr. Sulaiman;Several ownership marks on inner upper cover, fol.1a-b and elsewhere, some illegible or simply obliterated, including ownership statement on interior of upper cover in black ink in name of Mehmet Sait Efendizade Abdüssamet [?] (محمد سعيد افندى زاده عبد الصمد / Muḥammad Saʻīd Afandīʻzādah ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ) director of waqfs in Karbalāʼ, inscription reads "كيف اقول ملكي ولله ملك السموات والأرض وانا الفقير الحقير اليه عز شانه المرحوم المبرور الشيخ محمد سعيد افندي زاده عبد الصمد [؟] المدير باوقاف لواء كربلاء المعلاء عفي عنهما" accompanied by circular seal impression and followed by book price ; partially obliterated statement of purchase on fol.1a accompanied by rectangular seal impression reads "بسم الله ... الكتاب بالبيع الصحيح الشرعي الى يد اقل الخليقة ابن محمد حسين التبريزي "; small oval seal impression on fol.1b, difficult to make out ; on fol.90b, an oval seal impression reads "عبده محمد ۱۲۲٥[؟]" ; many glosses ; occasional marginal corrections for omissions, variants, etc