Skip to search
Skip to main content
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
رسالة في الاستعارات
Risālah fī al-istiʻārāt.
Author
Ṣabbān, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, -1791 or 1792
[Browse]
صبان، محمد بن علي
[Browse]
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1821 or 1860]
Description
111 leaves: paper ; 220 x 150 (155 x 75) mm. bound to 224 x 161 mm.
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 5703Y
Browse related items
Reading Room Request
Details
Subject(s)
Arabic language
—
Figures of speech
—
History
—
18th century
—
Sources
[Browse]
Arabic language
—
Metaphor
—
History
—
18th century
—
Sources
[Browse]
Manuscripts, Arabic
—
New Jersey
—
Princeton
[Browse]
Summary note
Careful copy of a treatise on metaphors, completed in 1182/1768 (see end of copy, fol. 111b).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger, according to R. Mach, GAL, and beginning of text (fol. 2a). The name of the author appears at the beginning and end of the text (fol. 2a and 111b).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Collation notes on the margin. Wove paper ; frame-ruled. Quinions. Kabīkaj on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper, fol. 111 ; 1-10¹⁰ 11¹⁰ (+1 at end of quire); catchword on the verso of each leaf.
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Lisān 75". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "838/2 Ḥ".
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 8 Rajab 1236 (or: 1276) [April 1821 or Jan. 1860] by al-Sayyid Aḥmad al-Aḥmadī Ibn al-Ḥājj Ḥasan ---? (fol. 111b).
Copyist: Aḥmad al-Aḥmadī ibn Ḥasan.
Basmallah: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه الايمان
Incipit: نحمدك اللهم على ما علمتنا من محاسن الفصاحة واحاسن البيان والهمتنا من دقايق البلاغة ... [2أ] اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى رحمة ربه المنان ابو العرفان محمد بن على المعروف بالصبان غفر الله ذنوبه وستر فى الدارين عيوبه هذه رسالة وضعتها فى الاستعارات وما يتعلق بها وما يتبعها
Explicit: بعد نقل ذلك عنهما بيتين فيهما تاكيد المجاز فالحق انه قليل لا ممنوع والله اعلم وقد تمم الله ما قصدته من رسالة تنطق بفرائد هذا الفن ونفائسه ... كما اثبت على نفسك وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله [111ب] وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا دائما الى يوم الدين قال مؤلفها تمت هذه النسخة على يد جامعها الفقير الى ربه المنان حمحد بن علي الصبان عمهما الله تعالى بالغفران فى سلخ شوال المنور من شهور سنة 1182 من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام والحمد لله رب العالمين
Binding note
Quarter bound in marbled paper and red leather. Paper pastedowns.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 19 --? [12]86 on fol. 1a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3981
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 288 (17/2) ; SII, 399 (19/2)
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
OCLC
192073661
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information