Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm active 1257—Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 370H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Dunquzī, ʻAbd Allāh, active 17th century. Bināʼ al-afʻāl. [Browse]
• دنقزي، عبد الله، active 17th century. بناء الافعال. [Browse]
• Abū Ḥanīfah, -767 or 768. Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf. [Browse]
• ابو حنيفة، -767 or 768. مقصود في التصريف. [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]

Summary note

Several treatises on Arabic grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlineal notes, marginal summaries. Before title page there are six blank folios.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 99 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (On folios between works: bird, roman-alphabet letters "F co V se"; coat-of-arms with a lion; bird with roman-alphabet letters "G F A". On written folios: three crescents; shield with a face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: [Maqṣūd] Copied 27 Rajab 1250 (fol. 44a) -- [Sharḥ al-Amthilah] Copied 1250 by Aḥmad al-Diyār al-Bakrī. (fol. 48b).
• Incipit: [امثلة] ثلاثى مجرد معلومك ... نصر ينصر نصرا فهو ناصر -- [بناء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلى الله على مصطفاه وعلى اله وصحبه واهل بيته اعلم ان ابواب التصريف خمسة وثلاثون بابا -- [مقصود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الوهاب للمؤمنين ... اما بعد فان العربية وسيلة الى العلوم الشرعية -- [شرح اللمثلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذى زين اذهان المبتدئين بالمثال ... وبعد فجمعت هذه الاوراق للمبتدئيين -- [عزى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تقتى اعلم ان التصريف في اللغة التغير وفي الصناعة تحويل الاصل الواحد
• Colophon: [امثلة] تمت وبالخير تمت الهنا اجعل اعز... -- [بناء] وناقص ومحموز واجوف -- [مقصود] قد استراح قلم احمد الديار البكرى سابع عشرين رجب من سنة خمسين بعد الماتين والالاف ... -- [شرح اللمثلة] تم كاتب شرح الامثلة شكر الله ... قلم احمد الديار بكرى ... 1250 -- [عزى] الحمد لله على كل مثال

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and gray and red marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents, notes]
• 2. fol. 1b-21a: Amthilah. Grammatical notes continue after the colophon on two additional folios.
• 3. fol. 21b-31b: Bināʼ. After colophon are two folios which contain paradigms for al-ṣaḥīḥ, al-muḍāʻaf, al-mithāl, al-ajwaf and al-nāqiṣ.
• 4. fol. 32a-32b: [blank]
• 5. fol. 33a-48b: Maqṣūd. Between folios 7 and 8 is inserted a slip of paper bearing a fāʼidah in Turkish.
• 6. fol. 44b-48b: Sharḥ al-Amthilah.
• 7. fol. 49a-56a: [blank]
• 7. fol. 56b-63b: [Turkish commentary on Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī]
• 8. fol. 64a-67a: [blank]
• 9. fol. 67b-89b: Hādhā Kitāb ʻIzzī fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf. Immediately after colophon occur seven lines from the opening of the commentary on al-Amthilah.

Show 7 more Contents items

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 493, 488, 303, 397.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Amthilah al-mukhtalifah.
• امثلة المختلة.
• Sharḥ al-Amthilah.
• شرح الامثلة.
• امثلة.
• بناء.
• مقصود.
• هذا كتاب عازي في علم التصريف.

OCLC

1310718364

Statement on responsible collection description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...