Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Copy of a treatise on grammar, with rich annotation and a certificate of reading. The text is followed on fol. 44b-47b by several inscriptions and certificate of reading.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh with a characteristic final alif, in black ink with use of red. The title page (fol. 1a) is simply decorated in red and black. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Modern label on the upper cover with the inscription in Arabic script "S424". Modern spine label with the inscription in Roman script "AUTS 39". These two inscriptions are repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• According to a note on fol. 44a, this copy was collated with an autograph.
• Copied on 16(?) Ṣafar 753 (colophon, fol. 44a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله ... الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد
• Explicit: و المخففة تحذف للساكن وفى الوقف فيُردّ ما حُذِفَ والمفْتُوح ما قبلها تُقلَبُ الفاً تمت

Binding note

Yellow paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Certificate of reading by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bisṭāmī for ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Naqīb, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 7[--?] (fol. 46a-b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3514
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 303 (7/1)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 531 (8/1)

OCLC

71312527

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