Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a short treatise on morphology.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Physical description: 10 lines per page. Written in black ink with occasional use of red. Thin light biscuit paper, translucid, with large laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. i-iv and 1 are later added fly-leaves (European paper with watermark). Ḥāshiyah on the margin, between the lines of the main text, and on small pieces of paper placed between the leaves. Several inscriptions, incuding short texts, kabīkaj, magic script, and ownership statements on fol. 2a-3a. Stained with water ; upper margin worm eaten.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 5". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥ 486".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī at the end of Ramaḍān 782 [Dec. 1380] (fol. 92b).
• Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī.
• Incipit: بسم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فقد سالنى من لا يسعنى مخالفته ان الحق بمقدمتى فى الاعراب (مقدمة فى التصريف) على نحوها ومقدمة فى الخط
• Explicit: واما الحروف فلم يكتب منها بالياء غير بلى والى وعلى وحتى والله اعلم بالصواب

Binding note

Red-brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a central gold-stamped scalloped mandorla with a floral arabesque left plain. The mandorla is outlined in gold with four radiating flecks. The outer border consists of gold and blind fillets and a guilloche. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Impression of a seal with inscription reading: "al-Sayyid Zāyid ʻAlī 265" on fol. 1a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one in the name of Mawlāná Ilyās Īrānī? (repeated on fol. 3a), of Muṣṭafá ibn al-ḥājj Bakr (with seal), of Aḥmad Najīb Ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (dated [12]81). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3543
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 305/II ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

213362963

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