Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 369H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, active 13th century. Marāḥ al-arwāḥ. [Browse]
• ابن مسعود، احمد بن علي، active 13th century. مراح الارواح. [Browse]
• Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257. Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf. [Browse]
• زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن ابراهيم، active 1257. مبادئ في التصريف. [Browse]
• Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768. Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf. [Browse]
• ابو حنيفة، -767 or 768. مقصود في التصريف. [Browse]
• Dunquzī, ʻAbd Allāh, active 17th century. Bināʼ al-afʻāl. [Browse]
• دنقزي، عبد الله، active 17th century. بناء الافعال. [Browse]

Summary note

Several compendiums of grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlineal notes in Arabic and Turkish.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 83 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "...venice..[?]") ; MS in good condition. One or more folios are missing between folios 72 and 73.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, orange, white, blue, and pink (fol. 1b, 32b, 44b, 54b); final work lacking a headpiece.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1174 (fol. 83b).
• Incipit: [مراح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اعلم ان الصرف ام العلوم -- [عزي] بسم الله ... اعلم ان التصريف في اللغة التغيير -- [مقصود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الوهاب ... اما بعد فان العربية وسيلة الى المعلوم الشرعية -- [بناء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اعلم ان ابواب التصريف خمسة وثلثون بابا ستة منها للثلاثي المجرد -- [الامثلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نصر ينصر نصراً فهو ناصر وذاك منصور
• Colophon: [مراح] تمت الاوراق بعون الخلاق. تم -- [عزي] تمت الاوراق. تم تم تم -- [مقصود] تم الکتاب بعون الخلاق. تم -- [بناء] صحيحست [صحيح] مثالست [مثال] مضاعف لفيف ناقص مهموز اجوف. تم -- [الامثلة] تمت الکتا[ب] بعون الله تعالى سنة 1174. تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Red paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-32a: Hādhā Kitāb Marāḥ / Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Masʻūd.
• 2. fol. 32b-33a: [blank]
• 3. fol. 33b-43b: ʻIzzī.
• 4. fol. 44a: [blank]
• 5. fol. 44b-53a: Maqṣūd.
• 6. fol. 53b-54a: [blank]
• 7. fol. 54b-61a: Bināʼ.
• 8. fol. 61b-63a: [blank]
• 9. fol. 64b-83b: al-Amthilah min al-mukhtalif.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 422, 396, 302, 487, 492.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 208 ; V, p. 487; VI, p. 91; II, p. 68.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 2, 12-18.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6615/6; 6805/6; 6796/7; 6825/6⁵; 6817/8.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 955.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Amthilah min al-mukhtalif.
• امثلة من المختل.
• هذا كتاب مراح.
• عزي.
• مقصود
• بناء

OCLC

1310718293

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