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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar 1075-1144—Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw [Browse]
• Shāmil Imām 1798?-1871 [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary of the Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a treatise on Arabic grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538/1144). The text is preceded and followed on fol. 1a-8a and 162a-163b by several short texts and excerpts from various texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 8a.
• Physical description: 9-10 lines per page. Written in a thick round naskh(?) in black ink, with use of red and green. Some headings in the text and subject headings on the margins are written on a green, red or yellow ground. Annotations on the margins, between the lines, and on slips of paper placed between the original leaves (some bearing impression of a seal, see between fol. 98 and 99). Inscription in a Turkic language on the margin of the colophon (fol. 161b). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals, starting on the first page of the text, fol. 8a.
• Two of the slips with annotations are re-used letters, now shelved separately.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw 41". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 1108/2".
• Origin: Copy completed in 1139 H. [1726 or 7] (long colophon, fol. 161b). Apparently from the same group as the manuscripts from Imām Shamīl's entourage.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذى جعل العربية مفتاح البيان ... وبعد فيقول الفقير ... [12أ] ... جمال الملة والدين محمد بن صدر الحاج شمس الدين عبد الغنى الاردبلى ... لما رايت مختصر الامام العلامة ... [13أ] ... قال الكلمة مفرد [13ب] اقول قبل الشروع فى المقصود
• Explicit: يشر صحبة الاضداد عصمنا الله من شرورهم وردّ اليهم بلطفه كيد تحورهم والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والماب تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب

Provenance

Inscription "From the books of Nūḥ al-Qaladī" (fol. 11a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3482
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 291/III. Cmt. 1 ; SI

OCLC

156993053

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