Details

Subject(s)

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

Summary note

Acephalous copy of Zamakhsharī's grammatical work. The first extant title is Faṣl wa al-ism al-muʻarrab ʻalá nawʻayn.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 12 lines per page. Written in large naskh (professional hand) in black ink (faded to brown); larger script for headings. The text is vocalized. Cream paper, with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic ordinals (starts with "thālithah" on fol. 10a); the bifolios of most quires are numbered using Arabic numerals, starting with "1" on the second bifolio and ending with "4" on the central bifolio. Lower part of two last leaves wanting. Wear; worm-eaten; extremely fragile.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on Friday, last night (salkh) of Jumādá al-Ūlá 607 [Nov. 19, 1210] (fol. 222b).
• Incipit: الله احمد على ان جعلنى من علماء العربية وجبلنى على الغضب للعرب والعصبية وابى لى ان انفرد عن صميم انصارهم
• Explicit: واذا كانوا ممن يحذفون مع امكان الاذغام فى يتسع ويتقي فهم مع عدم امكانه اخذف

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. Traces of tooling with a central large roundel and a large border consisting of fillets and running patterns, with x-shaped stamps in the inner corners of the central panel. Badly damaged. Rebacked. Modern paper pastedown and flyleaf.

Provenance

Acquired from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 326

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

182760951

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