Kitāb Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah. manuscript / Al-Juzʼ al-awwalكتاب خصائص العربية. مخطوطة / الجزء الأولIbn Jinnī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʻUthmān, -1002, authorابن جني، أبو الفتح عثمان، -1002, author1891.araTreatise on Arabic grammar. Preceded by 6 leaves of notes, including table of contents and a note in FrenchCopied in A.H. 1308 (A.D. 1891).Romanization supplied by cataloger.Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi tammim. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-wāḥid al-ʻadl al-qadīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá ṣafwatihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-muntakhabīn, wa-ʻalayhi wa-ʻalayhim al-salām ajmaʻīn ..."Text in Arabic; notes in Arabic and French.That this is the first juzʼ only is clear from leaf 299 verso and from the colophon on leaf 309 verso; the colophon, mentioning the end of the 2d juzʼ, is taken from another manuscript in which this first juzʼ was divided into two parts.Script: Calligraphic naskhī, in red, green, blue, and black.Binding: Modern library binding.Other juzʼs wanting.Colophon: "Ṣāra taṣḥīḥ hādhihi al-nuskhah wa-muqābalatuhā ʻalá al-nuskhah allatī nuqilat minhā awwalan, wa-ṣuḥḥiḥat wa-qūbilat ʻalá nuskhah aqdam min al-nuskhah al-ūlá, tārīkhuhā sanat 430, thalāthīn wa-arbʻmiʼah, kiltā al-nuskhatayn bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah al-Miṣrīyah, jaʻalahā Allāh ʻāmirah ilá muntahá al-zamān, wa-ḥafiẓahā min kull sūʼ fī kull waqt wa-awān, mā tajaddada al-ʻaṣr wa-taʻāqaba al-malawān. 1308, 22 Sh [Shaʻbān], 1891, ghurrat Abrīl. Kātibuhu Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khūjah. M."