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Subject(s)

• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Shudhūr al-dhahab fī maʻrifat kalām al-ʻArab [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ṭaḥāwī, ʻUmar ibn Khālid, active 15th century [Browse]

Related name

• طحاوي، عمر بن خالد، active 15th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 367H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on the author's own work on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 77 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; soft dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible ; some leaves water damaged.
• Origin: Copy completed on 25 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 862 [Feb. 10, 1458] by ʻUmar ibn Khālid ibn Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Ṭaḥāwī al-Shāfiʻī (colophon, fol. 77b).
• Incipit: قال سيدنا الشيخ الامام العالم العامل جامع اشتات الفضايل ... اول ما اقول اني احمد الله العلي الاكرم الذي علم بالقلم علم الانسان ما لم يعلم ثم اتبع ذلك بالصلاة ... وبعد فهذا كتاب شرحت به مختصري المسمى بشذور الذهب في معرفة كلام العرب تممت به شواهده ... قلت الكلمة قول مفرد واقولُ في الكلمة ثلاث لغات ولها معنيان.
• Explicit: ان يجعل ذلك لوجهه الكريم مصروفا وعلى النفع به موقوفا وان يغفر لي خطيتي يوم الدين ... وغلى افضل المخلوقين سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل والحمد له اولا واخرا.

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Paper pastedown with inscriptions. Damaged.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a and 77b, signed ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn al-Shaykh Abī al-Khayr ibn ʻAlī al-Shaʻrāwī ; Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥusaynī ; ʻAlī al-Jadhūlī ; etc. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 459

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

82171975

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