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Subject(s)

• Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad d. 1285—Lubb al-albāb fī ʻilm al-iʻrāb [Browse]
• اسفراييني، محمد بن محمد—لب الالباب في علم الاعراب [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Lubb al-albāb fī ʻilm al-iʻrāb, a treatise on grammar by Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāʾinī (d. 684/1285). The commentary is dedicated to Abū Ṭalib ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad (see fol. 3a, last 2 lines). On the commented text, see also Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3584.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• For other copies, see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3586.
• Physical description: 19-21 lines per page. Script changes from fol. 43a on. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including ownership statements and magic script. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first folio). Quinions. Loose leaves ; stained with water and humidity, with some loss of text (see fol. 30b).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 400" (no. "660" in Western numerals underneath, crossed out). Number 660 on fol. (i)a, crossed out.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Yūsuf(?) ibn ʻAzīz ibn Khalīl, and completed on a Friday in Ṣafar 852 [1448], in Madrasat Üsküb [Skopje] (fol. 160b).
• Incipit: بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله قاشع غمام الغموم ... وبعد فان لب الالباب فى علم الاعراب لا يخفى على ذوى الالباب انه كثير الفوايد جم العوايد ... [3ب] ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد هو الثناء على الجميل من جهة التنظيم ... الموجد من العدم اى من غير سبق بمادة ومدة المستاثر اى المستبد بالقدم
• Explicit: لزيدة الانكار بخلاف المتذكر فانه لا يقصد الوقف وانما عرض له ما اوجب قطع كلامه من النسيان تمت

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pastedowns for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind-stamped. Damaged.

Provenance

Waqf al-marḥūm al-Mullā ʻUthmān al-Kurdī (fol. 1a). Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Yūsuf, known as ...? al-Ḥanafī ; of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥayy ; of Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī al-...?. Several ownership statements and impression o a seal on fol. 2a, including a statement in the name of Muḥammad amīn Kūsh Zādah (dated 1168 H.), of Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-...?, of Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī, of Bakrī ibn darwīsh al-...? Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3586
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 296 (19/1.Cmt. 5) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ Lubb al-albāb fī ʻilm al-iʻrāb
• شرح لب الالباب في علم الاعراب

OCLC

213504567

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