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Subject(s)

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

Former owner

• Shāmil, Imām, 1798?-1871 [Browse]

Contains

• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078? ʻAwāmil al-miʼah. Selections. [Browse]
• جرجاني، عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن عوامل المائة [Browse]

Related record(s)

• [Short treatise on grammar].
• Kitāb mawsūm bi-Mutawassiṭ sharḥ al-Kāfiyah.
• al-Istiʻārah / lil-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-Kāmil [--- erased] al-muḥtāj ilá Allāh al-malik al-Wahhāb ... Muḥammad ibn ʻArab ibn Ḥajj ibn ʻArab.

Summary note

Collection of three texts on grammar: the middle commentary by al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Astarābādī (d. ca. 715/1315) on al-Kāfīyah fī naḥw, a treatise by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249) ; a gloss on the preface of Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī's Sharḥ Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī (d. 625/1257) ; a short anonymous text on sentence. These texts are followed on fol. 117a-124b by short texts and excerpts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from first text (fol. 3a).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in black ink with use of red and green. European paper with watermark. Fol. 1 and the unnumbered folio before it are later added fly-leaves, with a title added by a later hand on fol. 1a. Lines of poetry and other short texts on fol. 2a and 3b.
• Short text from Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-QDQī to "al-akh al-karīm al-imām al-humām" to whom the text is sent (fol. 4a).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw thānī 37 (or 27)". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "1282/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: Written by Muḥammad ibn Musayt(?) al-HRKNī al-...? from 1192 to 1193 H. [1778 to 1780] (see fol. 3a, 4a, 109a, 110a, 113b, 116a).

Binding note

Red cloth over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 3a-109a: Mutawassiṭ sharḥ al-Kāfiyah / al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al-Astarābādī.
• 2. fol. 109b: [Beginning of a text on grammar, the al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah by ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, d. 471/1078].
• 3. fol. 110a-113a: al-Istiʻārah [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Dībājat Sharḥ al-Taftazānī] / Muḥammad ibn ʻArab.
• 4. fol. 114a-116a: [Short text on grammar].
• 5. fol. 117a-124b: [Short texts and excerpts].

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Provenance

From the books of Imām Shamīl ("Shamwīl"), bought in 1241 H. [1825 or 6] (see inscription on fol. 3a) from Muḥammad ibn Musayt(?) (see inscription on fol. 4a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3507, 3518
• Kemper, M., A. Shikhsaidov, N. Tagirova. The Library of Imam Shamil, Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXIV (Autumn 2002), p. 131, n. 26

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

166505770

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