Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan 837 or 838-933—Maqṣūrah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 16H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 837 or 838-933. Maqṣūrah. [Browse]
• ابن دريد، محمد بن الحسن. مقصورة [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Maqṣūrah by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Durayd, completed on 14 Ramaḍān 1004 [May 12, 1596] (see end of text).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The title appears in the pramble of the text as "al-Āyāt al-maqṣūrah ʻalá al-abyāt al-maqṣūrah" (fol. 2b, l. 13).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 340 [i.e. 240] + i ; 1¹⁰ (+1 at beginning of quire, fol. i) 2-23¹⁰ 24¹² ; numbering jumps from 199 to 300 ; quires are numbered using Arabic numerals in red ink ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red and blue ; title page and opening spread frame-ruled in gold and black.
• Description: Rubricated ; use of red for commented text, re-inking, and entries ; watermarks.
• Inscription "1136" in pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's catalog ; see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 16).
• Origin: Copy completed on 15 Shaʻbān 1088 [Oct. 13, 1677] (colophon, fol. 240a).
• Incipit: يا من منح الايمة الاعلام بمقصورات الخيام الممدودة الاطناب ويا من مدح امة الاسلام في المبتداء والختام ... وبعد فان ابهي ما تتجمل به اجياد الانام وازمي ما تتكمل به جياد الايام التحلى بالفضايل الوسيمة
• Explicit: وتب علينا انك انت التواب الرحيم واغفر لنا وارحمنا انك انت [240أ] الرحيم وكان فراغ تاليف هذا الكتاب رابع عشرة رمضان المعظم قدره سنة اربعة بعد الالف احسن الله ختامها وادام نظامها وذلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم تسليمًا كثيرًا دايمًا ابدًا الى يوم الدين

Binding note

Golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a central red-stamped mandorla outlined in gold, in a panel outlined by a gold painted fillet, with an outer border consisting of blind tooled fillets and a guilloche. Portion of the same frame on the envleope flap,with a smaller stamp on the pointe. Geometrical gold painting on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership statement on fol. 1a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 21
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 172 (25/I. Cmt. 11)

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

166421454

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