المسباح في الجمع بين الافعال والصحاح في اللغة ... [الخ.].

al-Misbāḥ fī al-jamʻ bayna al-Afʻāl wa-al-Ṣiḥāḥ fī al-lughah ... [etc.].

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Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
Cairo, [1607]
Description
416 leaves : paper ; 234 x 164 (162 x 89) mm. bound to 235 x 170 mm.

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    Summary note
    Volume comprising the Arabic dictionary of al-Qurṭubī and various shorter texts concerning mainly lexicography, written by the same hand.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal notes. Long note on fol. 377b, concerning an event in 1013 H. [1604/5]. On fol. 8a, bibliographical notes on Ibn al-Faraḥ al-Qurṭubī, al-Jawharī, etc. On page after the title page (fol. 9a), table of contents.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 416 + (1) ; catchwords ; collation notes ; fol. 10-371 foliated as 1-361 using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Description: Written in medium small script in black ink ; rubricated ; overlining in red ink ; watermarks. The title is written on the lower edge of the textblock (illegible). Some smaller leaves (see fol. 356-357).
    • Origin: [Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ] Copied in Cairo (Miṣr) on 18 Jumādá al-Ulá 1016 [September 1607] (colophon, fol. 371b) -- [Abnīyat] Copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad on Tuesday 6 Rabīʻ al-Ākhir 1016 in Cairo (al-Qāhirah; colophon, fol. 405b). The date of completion of the copy of the Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ is given according to three different calendars (see fol. 371b).
    • Incipit: [تحفة وفية] بسم ... وصلى الله على خير خلقه ... الحمد لله الذى جعل معرفة العربية مرقاة لفهم كتابه وسلّما لاستخراج معنى الكلام ... و بعد فهذه تحفة وفية بمعانى حروف العربية جمعتها لبعض خلّص الاصحاب -- [كتاب المصباح] باب الهمزة الالف أثَأهُ بِسَهْمِ اِثٰاءَةً رماه ب ج أَجَأُ اسم احد جبلى طىّءٍ -- [كتاب الابنية] قال ابو بكر محمد بن عمر بن عبد العزيز اعلم ان الافعال على ضربين ضرب دخل التضعيف ثانية -- [ديباجة افعال] الحمد لله ذى العزة والسلطان والقدرة والبرهان الحعروف بالاحسان ... واعلم ان افصل ما رغب فيه الراغب وتعلق به الطالب معرفة لغة العرب -- [ابنية كتاب سيبويه] قال الشيخ ابو بكر محمد بن الحسن بن عبد الله بن مَذْحِجٍ الزُبَيْدِىّ رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله بارىء الانام ومُجْزِل الاقسام
    • Explicit: [تحفة وفية] والحق الحرف نحو زيدنى وقدنى والله اعلم -- [كتاب المصباح] وهى من الحروف الزوائد ومواضع زيادتها معروفة فى العربيّة وقصيدة ياويّة اذا كانت قوافيها على الياء -- [كتاب الابنية] وايضا فانه دلالة فكر هوا ان جمعوا بين دلالتين هذا جملة ما يحتاج المتأدّب اليه فى الافعال وما يتصرّف منها وبالله العَوْن ومنه التوفيق وهو ولىّ الهداية الى سوآء الطريق انتهى كلام ابن القطاع -- [ديباجة افعال] من الراغبين فيما لديه العاملين بما ندب اليه الفائزين زحمبه عند القدوم عليه انتهى -- [ابنية كتاب سيبويه] اذ الاحاطة ممتنعة فيها فامّا الافعال فمحصور جميعها ان شاء الله تعالى تم كتاب الابنية لابى بكر الزبيدي
    Binding note
    Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over paper pasteboards. The covers have a similar outer frame consisting in blind tooled and gold painted fillets and a s-shape running pattern. Paper pastedowns.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-7b : Tuḥfat wafīyah bi-maʻānī ḥurūf al-ʻarabīyah / Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣafāqisī. Short treatise on the meanings of the Arabic particles.
    • 2. fol. 8a-371b : Kitāb al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-jamʻ bayna al-Afʻāl wa-al-Ṣiḥāḥ / Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī. An Arabic dictionary in two parts, being an abridgment of al-Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī and of Kitāb al-Afʻāl of Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʻ
    • 3. fol. 372b-375b : Kitāb al-abnīyah / ʻAlī ibn Jaʻfar Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʻ. Beginning of a treatise and lexicon on Arabic verbs, also known as the Kitāb al-Afʻāl.
    • 4. fol. 372b-373a (margin) : Dībājat [Kitāb al-]Afʻāl / ʻAlī ibn Jaʻfar Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʻ. The preface to the Kitāb al-Afʻāl of Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʻ, a lexicon of Arabic verbs.
    • 5. fol. 373a (margin) : [Excerpts] / Jaʻfar ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abi ʻAmr al-Sulamī.
    • 6. fol. 374b- : [Excerpts from al-Kāmil] / Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Thumālī, known as al-Mubarrad.
    • 7. fol. 376a : Tartīb Kitāb al-ʻAyn / Khalīl ibn Aḥmad.
    • 8. fol. 376b : Fī Awqāt ṭulūʻ manāzil al-qamar / ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥumuwī, known as Ibn Qarnāṣ.
    • 9. fol. 376b-377b : Hādhihi al-alfāẓ allatī dhakara-hā Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Barrī ibn ʻAbd al-Jabbār al-Naḥwī al-muṣdir bil-Jāmiʻ al-ʻatīq bi-Miṣr / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Barrī.
    • 10. fol. 378a : [Excerpts from the Nihāyat of Ibn al-Athīr, the Ṣiḥāḥ of al-Jawharī, etc.].
    • 11. fol. 378b-405b : Abnīyat Kitāb Sibawayhi / Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Ishbīlī. Abridgment of the Kitāb, a treatise on grammar by ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān Sibawayh and a biography of the author.
    • 12. fol. 406a : [Excerpts in verse and prose from the Kitāb Natāʼij al-ādāb by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ... al-Ḥusaynī, known as Daftarkhān, the Mayiz al-Diyāḥī by ʻAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī [ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, d. 1245], al-Damāmīnī, Ādāb [al-mulūk] by [ʻAbd al-Malik] Thaʻālibī [d. 1037/8], al-Arbaʻīn by al-Bukhārī in al-Sāhir fī al-islām, al-Wāsiṭī].
    • 13. fol. 406b-407b : [Chapter on the words "wasaṭ" and "wasṭ"] / ʻAbd Allāh ibn Barrī.
    • 14. fol. 408a- : [Excerpts in verse and prose on lexicography from al-Naṭanzī, ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭabalāwī, etc.].
    Provenance
    Ownership statement on fol. 1a, in the name of Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Jawharī, dated 1276 H. [1859/60] ; the same name appears on fol. 9a and 202a. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900, from the books of Amīn ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
    Source acquisition
    • Purchase ; Brill ; 1900.
    • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 245, 253, 265, 274
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 540 : 2/1
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