Details

Subject(s)

• Suyūṭī 1445-1505—Farīdah fī al-taṣrīf [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 384H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on the author's Farīdah fī al-taṣrīf, a poem on grammar. The commentary was completed on 11 Jumādá al-Ākhirah 895 [May 2, 1490] (see end of the text, fol. 166b).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation notes and a few annotations on the margins. Fol. 167-170 blank.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 170 ; 1-17¹⁰ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated.
• Origin: Copy completed on 4 ("chaharum") Jumādá al-Awwal 1138 by Muḥammad ʻAṭā on behalf of its owner Ḥājjī Aḥmad HYW ibn Muḥammad ʻĀrif al-MSKtī (colophon, fol. 166b).
• Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله على نعمه المزيدة والصلوة ... فهذا تعليق على الفياتي في علم العربية المسماة الفريدة كثير الفوايد العديدة.
• Explicit: والخناس الشيطان والختر العذر وفي التنزيل وما يحجد باياتنا الا كل ختر كفور وهذا اخر ما تيسر املاوه من هذا الشرح ووافق الفراغ من املائه يوم السبت المبارك حادي عشر جمادي الاخرة سنة خمس وتسعين وثمانماية وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Repaired with red leather. Blind stamped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis on the covers and blind-tooled edging. Yellow paper pastedowns. Spine and fore-edge flap damaged. Disbound.

Provenance

Three ownership statements on fol. 1a, one obliterated, one signed ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Mīrdād, dated 1203 [1788 or 9], one signed Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar [--?]. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 463

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Title in preamble (fol. 1b, l. 5)

• Maṭāliʻ al-saʻīdah fī sharḥ al-Farīdah

OCLC

80015310

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