ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. - Lot 269

ARABIC MANUSCRIPT. IBN HISHAM AL-ANṢĀRĪ. Last six pages of a copy of the Sharh Shudhūr al-Dhahab fī maʿrifat kalām al-ʿarab. 1102 = 1690. 4 ff. (20.2 x 14.8 cm), last leaf has three notes, one of which is erased, and the basmala, manuscript in Maghrebian script comprising twenty-three lines per page, black ink on laid paper, with red for some words and the colophon (stains, wetness, small wormholes). MANUSCRIT copied by a certain Naṣr b. Āmir al- Nafzāwī as indicated in the colophon. Excerpts from the work of the Egyptian grammarian Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī (1309-1360) entitled Sharḥ Shudhūr al-dhaḥab fī maʿrifat kalām al-ʿarab. This is a compendium on Arabic syntax including a commentary by the author. The folios shown include the end of the text. Modern editions of this text exist