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Subject(s)

• Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1499—Muqaddimah al-Azharīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah [Browse]
• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Maʻānī, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• معاني، محمد بن ابراهيم، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 383H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Embossed papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1499. Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-Azʹharīyah. [Browse]
• ازهري، خالد بن عبد الله، -1499. شرح المقدمة الازهرية. [Browse]
• Qarah Sinān, Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -1448. Nūr al-Miṣbāḥ. [Browse]
• قرة سنان، يوسف بن عبد الملك، -1448. نور المصباح. [Browse]

Summary note

Two commentaries on works of grammar.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. v + 117 + vi ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; second work contains some paper tinted yellow ; watermarks (later endpapers: coat-of-arms with an animal, eagle, roman-alphabet letters; first work: coat of arms, countermark with roman-alphabet initials "PP" with a clover between; second work: coat of arms with a different countermark) ; MS in excellent condition. MS is rare.
• Origin: [Sharḥ al-Azharīyah] Copied Jumādá al-Ūlá 1095 by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 42b)
• Incipit: [شرح الازهرية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على جميع الاحوال واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغنى خالد بن عبد الله الازهرى قد سالنى من اعتقد صلاحه ... انى اشرح مقدمة الازهرية في علم الغريب -- [نور المصباح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان والعقلاء وجعل لهم کل البهايم والجهلاء
• Colophon: [شرح الازهرية] قد وفع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة بعون الله تعالى في يد عبد الفقير المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الكريم سيد محمد بن سيد ابراهيم في وقت العصر من يوم الثلثا في شهر جمادى الاولى سنة 1095 حمس وتسعين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل الصاوات والتحية غفر الله لكتابه ولوالديه لاستاديه ... -- [نور المصباح] تمت کتاب نور المصباح في شعبان سنة ست وستين وثمانماية وهذا التاريخ تاريخ لمؤلفه ومصنفه. م

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and green embossed paper. Blue and red marbled paper pastedowns and end papers.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-42b: Sharḥ al-Azʹharīyah. A commentary on the author's own prolegomena on grammar. On title page occurs the autograph of the copyist.
• 2. fol. 45a-117b: Kitāb Nūr al-miṣbāḥ. A commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ. In the introduction the author states that he composed the work 866 [1462] in Marmora during the reign of Sultan Muḥammad II, who reigned 855-886 [1451-1481]

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Signature of an owner ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Mawlawī, the copyist Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-shahīr bi-al-Maʻānī and a seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 351, 462.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.
• شرح المصباح في النحو.
• Kitāb Nūr al-miṣbāḥ.
• كتاب نور المصباح.

OCLC

1346256726

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