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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Iẓhār al-asrār [Browse]
• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 386H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar, 1075-1144. Mufaṣṣal. [Browse]
• زمخشري، محمود بن عمر، 1075-1144. مفصل. [Browse]

Contains

• Ulāmīshī, Muṣliḥ al-Dīn, active 16th century. Kashf al-asrār sharḥ al-Iẓhār. [Browse]
• الاميشي، مصلهح الدين، active 16th century. كشف الاسرار شرح الاظهار. [Browse]
• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144. Unmūdhaj. [Browse]
• زمخشري، محمود بن عمر، 1075-1144. انموذج. [Browse]

Summary note

Three grammatical treatises.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes. On fol. 1a-2a are several grammatical and other notes including statements about Bīrkilī and al-Jārabardī, 746 [1345]. Edges of al-Unmūdhaj are trimmed except of fol. 89, where it is folded to preserve a marginal note.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 105 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text is overlined in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (crown, long row of roman-alphabet letters; roman-alphabet letters in an oblong; grapes) ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
• Origin: [Kashf al-asrār] Copied Friday Rabīʻ II 1154 by Ḥasan ibn Junayd al-Ḥirafī al-Daghstānī at the Suleymaniya Mosque? (fol. 75a) -- [al-Unmūdhaj] Copied 22 Ṣafar 1158 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān in Cyprus (fol. 105b)
• Incipit: [کشف الاسرار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الولي الانعام -- [شرح العوامل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. باسم الله اي باستعانة الله -- [الانموذج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الکمة مفرد اما اسم کرجل واما فعل کضرب واما حرف کقد
• Colophon: [کشف الاسرار] فاطر السموات والارض والانام ووقع الاختتام في يوم الجمعة قبيل العصر في شهر ربيع الاخر في سنة 1154 بيدي الحقير الفقير ... حسن ابن الشيخ جنيد الحرفي الدغستاني عفى [عفا] الله عنهما وعن کل المسلمين في المدرسة ... السلطان ابن السلطان السلطان سليمان قانباه اللهم نور قبره وروح روحه وطيب ضريحه واغفر له وارحمه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين -- [شرح العوامل] تم ولله الحمد -- [الانموذج] تم هذا الکتاب عن يد الفقير عبد الرحمن بجزيرة قبرس سنة 1158 ص 22

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-75a: Kashf al-asrār sharḥ al-Iẓhār. A commentary on Iẓhār al-asrār fī al-naḥw, a grammatical treatise by the author's teacher Bir ʻAlī, known as Bīrkilī.
• 2. fol. 75b-87a: [Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah]
• 3. fol. 87b-88b: [blank]
• 4. fol. 89a: [notes]
• 5. fol. 89b-105b: [al-Unmūdhaj] A treatise on syntax, being an abridgment of the authorʼs famous work al-Mufaṣṣal.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 468, 323, 328.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 346; I, p. 468.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6783, 6514/5.
• Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 143.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 509.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 25.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 167.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 178².
• Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 196¹.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 223.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah.
• شرح العوامل المائة.
• Sharḥ al-aẓhār al-musammá bi-Kashf al-asrār.
• شرح الاظهار المسمى بكشف الاسرار.

OCLC

1311593572

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