Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Short treatise on grammar of the Arabic language.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ابو الحسن طاهر بن احمد بن بابشاذ النهوى رحمه الله النحو علم مستنبط بالقياس والاستقرا من كتاب الله عز وجل والكلام الفصيح
• Explicit: واما البدل فمثل ابدال التنوين في حال النصب الفًا من الرحمن تمت المقدمة المباركة
• Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red for key-words and headings. Red teardrop text-stops. The text is vocalized. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Some leaves are dyed in orange. Marginal annotation (partly wanting). Prayers by several hands on fol. 28b. One leaf missing between fol. 18 and 19, and probably between fol. 10 and 11. Worm eaten.
• Origin: Copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUmar ibn Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʻī, on 17 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 781 [March 25, 1380] (colophon, fol. 28a).

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of Ḥusayn Ibn al-Shaykh Yūsuf al-...āl al-Ḥanbalī al-Qādirī, the other in the name of Sulaymān al-Maḥāsinī, with seal. The manuscript is wrapped in an envelope from Hodgson & co., Auctioneers of Libraries and Rare Books, 115 Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2, addressed to Dr. A. S. Yahuda, 25 Ellesworthy Road, N.W.3. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3463
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 301 (1/1) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

138665869

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