[Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb ilá qawāʼid al-iʻrāb maʻa Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn, 1130, i.e. 1717 or 1718 and 1188, i.e. 1774].

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Fine Maghribī copy of the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Khālid ibn ʻAbdallāh al-Azharī (d.1499) upon Ibn Hishām's popular grammatical textbook, Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb, followed by a commentary by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d.1490) upon his own ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawhīd al-ṣughrá, or Umm al-barāhīn, on the essentials of faith.Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 661Origin: As appears in colophon on p.76, opening work copied by Aḥmad al-Hānī al-Hilālī with transcription completed 1130 [1717 or 18]. As appears in colophon on p.188, transcription of second work completed around the time of the mawlid (birthday of the Prophet) 1188 [1774].Accompanying materials: Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 378" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in block-printed paper (rows of interlaced curves in red, studded with aquamarine accents in dots and strokes, all on a bright orange ground) with brown leather over spine, fore edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted paper ; tooled accents on fore edge flap ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked chevron endbands in mauve and cream, good condition ; text block trimmed around marginalia ; overall in fair condition with some abrasion, staining, cover detaching at spine, etc.Support: European laid paper ; mainly with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 25 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (88 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.14, 26, 34, 35, etc.), sturdy and well-burnished ; another type with 6-7 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 31 mm. apart (horizontal), and three crescents watermark (82 mm. long, perpendicular to chains, see p.108, etc.), sturdy and somewhat thick, burnished.Decoration: Keywords and section headings rubricated ; written area of incipit and facing page of opening work surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Maghribī ; two main hands ; hand supplying opening work quite neat and uniform, exhibiting little deviation from the vertical and adhering closely to the baseline, with characteristic sweeping descenders, etc. ; hand supplying second work less uniform, occasional tilt to the right or left, etc. ; opening leaf of second work seemingly supplied in a different hand.Layout: Written in 23 and 24 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: ii, 3 V(30), II (34), I (36), V-1+1 (46), V (56), IV (64), V (74), IV (82), V (92) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves).Colophon: [Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb] "Scribal," triangular, reads "كمل بحمد الله وحسن عونه على يد كاتبه الفقير الى ربه الراجي عفو مولاه الشريف احمد الهاني الهلالي وكان الفراغ منه يوم الخميس في ثلالثة [ايام؟] بقين من [...؟] عام ثلاثين ومائة والف تم الكتاب وانقضى وفعلنا الذي وجب رحم الله من قرأ ومن دعا للذي كتب" ; [Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn] "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ منه يوم الثلاثة انتهى بمولده صلى الله عليه وسلم عام ثمانية وثمانين ومائة والف ..."Incipit: [Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb] "الحمد لله الملهم بحمده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغني خالد بن عبد الله الازهري هذا شرح لطيف على قواعد الاعراب ..." ; [Sharḥ Umm al-barāhīn] "الحمد لله الواسع الجود والعطاء الذي شهد بوجوب وجوده ... وبعد فاهم ما يشتغل به العاقل اللبيب في هذا الزمان الصعب ان يسعى فيما ينقذ به مهجته من الخلود ... سميته موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب ..."Title supplied by cataloguer.Ms. composite codex.3. p.78-p.188: ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawhīd al-ṣughrá al-musammá bi-Umm al-barāhīn / Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yusūf al-Sanūsī.2. p.77 : [blank].1. p.6-p.76 : Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb ilá qawāʼid al-iʻrāb / Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Azharī.Brockelmann, C. GAL,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine Maghribī copy of the commentary by Zayn al-Dīn Khālid ibn ʻAbdallāh al-Azharī (d.1499) upon Ibn Hishām's popular grammatical textbook, Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb, followed by a commentary by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d.1490) upon his own ʻAqīdat ahl al-tawhīd al-ṣughrá, or Umm al-barāhīn, on the essentials of faith.Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by his younger brother, the famous Orientalist and manuscript collector Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951).Occasional marginal corrections and glosses