Details

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]

Related name

• Shāmil, Imām, 1798?-1871 [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a compendium on grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d. 358/1144). The text is followed on fol. 145b-147a by several short texts and diagrams by the same hand as the main text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (later hand; see also preamble of text, fol. 3a). The word "iʻrāb" is crossed out and replaced by "sharḥ" in pencil.
• Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in small round naskh(?) in black ink with use of red. Irregular handmade paper. Fol. 2 and 147 consist of a modern piece of paper pasted on the recto and the verso respectively of the first and last original leaves. Subject headings in black on the margins. A few slips of paper with annotations between the original leaves. Mainly quaternions; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (counts the first free endpaper as fol. 1).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī naḥw 44". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "767/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: 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 علامة العالم الامام جار الله المسمى بانموذج ... [3أ] ... وسميته الاعراب بهذا المختصر على وجه الكمال متعرضًا لشرح معانيه(؟) ... وجعلته تحفة بخدمة ابى السلطان كتحفة النمل على حضرة سليمان ... وقوله الكلمة مرفوع على انه مبتدء وتعريفه بالام ورفعه بالضمة اللفظية
• Explicit: مرفوع لفظا بانه خبر المبتداء والمبتداء مع خبره جملة اسمية معطوفة على الجملة الاولى

Binding note

Quarter bound in brown glazed paper and dark brown leather. Gilt tooling on spine.

Provenance

Probably from the entourage of imam Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3485

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

شرح انموذج الزمخشري

Corrected title (fol. 1a)

• Sharḥ Unmūdhaj al-Zamakhsharī

OCLC

182723153

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