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

Treatise on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 5a).
• Physical description: 10 to 18 lines per page. Written in medium small thick taʻlīq and naskh in black ink with use of red and green (the latter only at the beginning and the end of the copy). European paper. Several ḥāshiyah on the margin and on small slips of paper placed between the original leaves (abundant at the beginning of the copy; occasional afterwards). Inscriptions and short excerpts on fol. 4a (including a partially erased ownership statement), on fol. 5a, and on fol. 106b-107a. Magic script and talismans on fol. 4b. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (starting with "1" on the first fly-leaf after the free endpaper; this record follows the modern foliation).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī naḥw 28". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1140/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed by Saʻīd on a Tuesday in 1193 H. (fol. 106a). Collated on a copy bearing the handwriting of the author (collation statement, fol. 106a, margin).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام فخر خوارزم رئيس الافاضل ايد القاسم محمود بن عمر الزمخشرى تجاوز الله عنه الله احمد على ان جعلنى من علماء العربية وجبلنى عن الغضب للعرب والعصبية وابى لى ان انفرد عن صميم انصارهم
• Explicit: واذا كان ممن يحذفون مع امكان الادغام فى يتسع ويتغى مع عدم امكانه اخذف لله الحمد والمنة

Provenance

Ownership statements on fol. 4a (partially erased, with name apparently reading "al-Charkasī"), 4b (in the name of Muḥammad ʻAlī). Apparently from the same group as other manuscripts from the entourage of Imām Shamīl. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3477
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 291/II ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

191802239

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