Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Semantics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—Syria—Damascus—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Collector

• Baʻlī, Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ, 1247 or 1248-1309 or 1310 [Browse]
• Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzīyah, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr, 1292-1350 [Browse]

Related name

• بعلي، محمد بن ابي الفتح [Browse]
• ابن قيم الجوزية، محمد بن ابي بكر [Browse]
• ابن تيمية، احمد بن عبد الحليم [Browse]

Contains

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328. [Short text on semantics]. [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on the words with the same consonant skeleton susceptible of having three different meanings depending on the vocalization (edited Makkah, 1984). At the end of the text, copy of two versions of an ijāzah written by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʼī al-Jayyānī on Saturday, 29 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 667 [1268] for Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbbās ibn Abī Bakr ibn Haʻwān? al-Anṣārī, transmitted by Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ ibn Abī al-Faḍl al-Baʻlbakī al-Ḥanbalī, found by the copyist at the end of his exemplar. The text is followed on fol. 138a by a short text by Ibn Taymīyah on semantics, reported by Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawzīyah (incomplete at end).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Physical description: 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Thick light cream paper with pulp (and laid lines?) visible. The text has been collated on a copy made under the reading of the author (see collation statement on the margin of fol. 30b, 42a, etc.). Several short texts and reading statements (samāʻ notes) with names and dates (one reading 693 [1294]) on fol. 1a-2b (inverted). Title written on the lower edge of the text block.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 131 ; 1¹⁰ (+1, fol. 1) 2-13¹⁰ ; quires are numbered (mostly cut off) using Arabic numerals (see "8" on fol. 72a) or abjad (see "Yā" on fol. 102a).
• Origin: Copy completed by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sākin al-Ṭūsī on 21 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 691 in Damascus in the Madrasah al-ʻĀdilīyah al-Sayfīyah (colophon, fol. 129a).
• Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Sākin al-Ṭūsī.
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ... الحمد له الذى فضّل الانسان على كثير ممن خلق تفضيلاً ... اما بعد فان تثليث الكلم فنّ تميل نفوس الاذكياء اليه
• Explicit: يَهَاعُ يَجْبُنُ وايضاً يَجوُعُ ... وايضاً يَشْتَدُّ حرْصُهُ

Binding note

Brown leather over pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Central blind stamped mandorla with an outer frame made of a s-shape running pattern and fillets on both covers. The envelope flap has a similar outer frame and a smaller blind stamp on its pointe.

Provenance

Several ownership statements (some obliterated) on fol. 3a, signed Ḥasan ibn al-marḥūm [...?]; Ismaʻīl ibn Aḥmad al-Nābulusī al-Shāfiʻī [Damascus, 937 - 23 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 993 / 1530 or 31 - 1585; see al-Kawākib al-sāʼirah bi-aʻyān al-miʼah al-ʻāshirah, 1959, vol. 3, p. 130-135]; [...] al-Ḥanafī; ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn al-Nābulusī al-Ḥanafī; ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-sayyid Ḥamzah al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥanafī, dated end of Jumādá al-Ūlá 1111 [1699] [Damascus, Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1050 - 4 Rajab 1118 / 1641-1706; see Silk al-Durar, vol. 3, p. 66-80]; Asʻad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭawīl, dated 1182 [1768 or 9]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3583
• Kash al-ẓunūn. Ed. Fluegel, I, 392 (no. 1111)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

76884980

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