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Subject(s)

• Jārbardī, Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan -1345—Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 364H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by the author's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Jārbardī (d. 746/1345). The text is followed on fol. 80a-86a by a short text in Persian, on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• A few marginal annotations, particularly on the first pages. Several inscriptions, mostly quoting ḥadīth, on fol. 1a-b and 2a. Several inscriptions in Arabic and Persian on fol. 86b. Several inscriptions in Arabic and Roman script on the upper cover, including the inscription "239" in black ink, using Western numerals (corresponds to no. in Brill's list ; see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 443).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 86 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with larger script for "qawluh".
• Copy completed in Damascus on 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 845 by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Mawlá al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-fāḍil ---? [Hitti reads ʻAlī] ibn Rakhāḥī [Hitti reads Rukhāmī] [--] ibn al-shaykh al-rabbānī al-zāhid al-Ṣamadānī Shaykh Bābā Abī Dāʼud ibn Shaykh Muḥammad al-ANSī [Hitti reads Anasī] al-Shabistārī (colophon, fol. 79b ; two dates appear in the colophon, 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 845 and 846, and it is not clear to what they refer).
• Explicit text 1: قال السيّد فى شرح الكبير الكافية وهو قليل اي والتنيون الغالي فى كلام الفصحاء قليل والله اعلم تم كتاب الغنى فى شرح المغنى.
• Explicit text 2: رسول كفت ايشان باشند اهل معروف در ين جهان ودر ان جهان.
• Incipit text 2 : غرض از علم نحو معرفت اعرابست واعراب را چهار چيز ميبايد يكي محلّ وموصوف.
• Incipit text 1: الحمد لله الفاطر الحكيم القادر العليم ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف ... محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن كحكد [---] الميلاني لما لم يكن للكتاب المسمّى بالغني فى علم النحو شرح وهو من مصنفات استاذي العلامة ... احمد بن الحسن الجارپردي ... قد خطر ببالي ان اشرحَ له شرحًا كاشفًا.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns. Rebacked. Damaged. Disbound.

Provenance

Ownership statement with seal on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 443.

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• Ghanī fī sharḥ al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw
• غني في شرح المغني في علم النحو

OCLC

80767949

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