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Subject(s)

• Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm fl. 1257—Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī [Browse]
• زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن ابراهيم—تصريف العزي [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī, a treatise on grammar by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī (fl. Bagdad, 625/1257).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh with elements of nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red for "qāla" and "aqūl" and to overline the commented text. The text is framed within a single line in red ink. European paper with watermark. Annotations on the margin. Fol. 1 and 55 are modern added fly-leaves. Several inscriptions on fol. 2a, including ownership statements and mention of a price. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 33". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1357/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Fāʾiq, who completed his work on a Friday at the end of Ṣafar 1011 [Aug. 1602] (fol. 52b).
• Incipit: بسم ... قال اعلم ان التصريف فى اللغة التغيير وفى الصناعة تحويل الاصل الواحد ... اقول اعلم ان من جملة العلوم الادبية علم التصريف وللتصريف معنيان لغوى وصناعى
• Explicit: للفرق بينه وبين المرة فهو آخر الكلام

Provenance

Waqf (see inscription on fol. 3a, upper margin, and on fol. 2a, the latter with mention of the name "ʻAbd al-...? Sharīf Aḥmad"). Several ownership statements and impressions of seals on fol. 2a, including one in the name of Sharīf Aḥmad Ibn al-Sayyid Muḥammad Islāmbulī, and one in the name of ʻAlī ibn Ḥusayn. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3508
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 283 (15(16)/Cmt. 2a) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

216916176

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