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Subject(s)

• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw [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. 313H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d. 610/1213).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 128b).
• Important marginal and interlinear annotations. Several inscriptions, including ownership statements with seal impressions and verses of poetry praising this book on fol. 1a. Inscription "45" in Western numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's list, see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 313).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 128 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks.
• Origin: Copy completed on a Thursday in the first decade of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 834 [Aug. 1431] (colophon, fol. 128b).
• Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء لازمة لها قال سبويه.
• Explicit: لان اهانة المولى من لوازم ضرب الغلام وهذا باب للاطناب(؟) فيه --ال لكن يقضى الى الملال فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الري عنِ السثاقِ(؟) تم.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather and paper (different on each cover) over paper pasteboards. Paper with block-pressed design on fore-edge flap. Red dyed paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Taʻlīq.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 340

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

84848626

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