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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—13th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid al-Muṭarrizī (d. 684/1285). The text is followed on fol. 146b by verses of poetry in Persian (14 lines) written by a later hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper, translucid, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 consists of a later leaf pasted on the recto of the first leaf of the text. Ḥāshiyah on the margin and on a few small slips of paper placed between the original leaves. Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover, on fol. 1a and 147a, including kabīkaj and ownership statement.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 148 ; 1⁸ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-18⁸ 19 (4 leaves + 1 at end of quire) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw 68". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 1389/2".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 2 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 852 [June 1448] by Mūsá ibn Muḥammad (fol. 146a).
• Incipit: ان احق ما يتوشح بذكره صدور الكتب والدفاتر ... اما بعد فان نوع الادب على كثرة سجوقه وتشعّب فنونه نوع عزّ على الطلبة مرامه ... [4ب] ديباجة الكتاب قال الامام ناصر الدين ابو المكارم المطرزى اما بعد حمد الله اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء لازمة لها
• Explicit: الى الملال فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الرأى عن النشاق

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards, with flap. Blind stamped central scalloped mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets on the covers. paper pastedowns.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir, 1269 H. [1852 or 3] (fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3490
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 293/15 (I.Com. 1) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

183316214

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