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Subject(s)

• Shaʻrānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Aḥmad approximately 1493-1565 or 1566—Lubāb al-iʻrāb al-māniʻ min al-laḥn fī al-sunnah wa-al-Kitāb [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 385H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A commnetary on al-Muqaddimah al-naḥwīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah, a work on grammar by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A short inscription and a signature (ownership statement?) in the name of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barrī al-Ḥanafī, accompanied by a stamp and dated 1101 (1689-90), on fol. 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 388 + (3) + (9) ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Most of the ms. is written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, but fol. 1-161 are in a different hand in medium small nastaʻlīq and on different (glazed European) paper (a later replacement?).
• Origin: Copied from the original in the author's hand and completed on the 29th of Ṣafar 1057 (1647) -- colophon (fol. 388b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ومنه الامداد انه جزاد كريم الحمد لله الذي نحت اليه بالضماير الخالصة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف احمد ابن محمد الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجي ... فقد سالني من لا تسعني مخالفته.
• Explicit: قاله وكثير على عجل ووجل اضعف عباد الله البارى احمد بن الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجى الانصارى.

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Blind fillets around borders of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in yellow paper with a red pattern. Fore edge flap repaired in red leather. The ms. is disbound and loose inside the covers. Spine completely disintegrated and remains only partially.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Nastaʻlīq.

Provenance

Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 474
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 457

Other format(s)

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

Other title(s)

شرح شعرانية من النحو

Label on upper cover

• Sharḥ Shaʻrānīyah min al-naḥw

OCLC

174293059

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