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Subject(s)

• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar 1075-1144—Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw [Browse]
• زمخشري، محمود بن عمر—انموذج في النحو [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a compendium on grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d. 358/1144).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 171b).
• Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in medium small taʻlīq in black ink with use of red and blue. Rough dark cream paper, with irregular laid lines visible. The edges of some leaves have not been trimmed. Fol. 1-2 are later added fly-leaves. Fol. 83-84 are replacements on blue paper. Subject headings written in black, red, or blue on the margins. Marginal annotations. A few slips of paper with annotations are placed between the original leaves. Several inscriptions including verses of poetry on fol. 3a. Mildew.
• A letter originally placed between fol. 43 and 44 is now shelved separately.
• Inscription in a Caucasian language on a slip of paper placed between fol. 4 and 5 (see The Library of Imam Shamil, p. 128, n. 19).
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 172, iii ; i (free endpaper; marbled recto) ii (later added fly-leaves; fol. 1-2 in the modern foliation in pencil)1-17¹⁰ ii (later added fly-leaves) i (free endpaper; marbled verso) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1401/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: Copy completed by Rajab ibn Ḍandar(?) on a Sunday in Dhū al-Ḥijjah [no year] (colophon, fol. 171b). The script and paper indicate that this copy is of the same origin as the other MSS from the entourage of Imām Shamīl (Dagestan).
• Incipit: نحمدك يا من بيده الخير والجود وليس فى الحقيقة غيره بموجود وهو بالحمد والثناء جدير على ان تيسّر على ما هو عسير ... وبعد فيقول الحقير الفقير الداعى بالخير لما رايت الطالبين المشتغلين لقراة مختصر الامام جار الله العلامة بانموذج ... [4أ] ... وسميته اعرابًا لهذا المختصر على وجه الكمال متعرضًا لشرح معانيه(؟) ... وجعلته تحفة لخدمة ابن السلطان كتحفة النمل على حضرة سليمان ... فقوله الكلمة مرفوع على انه مبتداء وتعريفه باللآم ورفعه بالضمة اللفظية
• Explicit: مرفوع لفظا بانه خبر المبتدا والمبتدا مع خبره جملة ---؟ معطوفة على الجملة الاولى

Binding note

Half-bound: Marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap ; blue cloth spine and fore-edge flap. Marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3485
• Kemper, M., A. Shikhsaidov, N. Tagirova. The Library of Imam Shamil, in Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXIV, no. 1 (Autumn 2002), p. 128, n. 19

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

شرح انموذج الزمخشري في النحو المسمى بتركيب الانموذج

Title on fol. 1a (later hand)

• Sharḥ Unmūdhaj al-Zamakhsharī fī al-naḥw al-musammá bi-Tarkīb al-Unmūdhaj

OCLC

166254794

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