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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Dictionaries—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Islamic law—Dictionaries—History—12th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Dictionaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• dictionaries [Browse]

Summary note

Abridgment of al-Muʻrib, a lexicon of select words and phrases, particularly those which occurr in the books of tradition and other works relating to law. On ten leaves after the end of the text (fol. 126-135) are inscriptions, short texts, and diagrams (mainly squares) by several hands, some inverted.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Physical description: 25 lines per page; the last words of each verso are written on the left portion of a 26th line. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and entries. The text is vocalized. Thin friable light cream paper, with regular laid lines and a few chain lines visible. Fol. 3-6 are later replacements. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including a fāʾidah and ownership statements Thread division markers. Quaternions. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Worm-eaten ; stained with dampness ; two first leaves extremely fragile.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ...?, and completed on a Thursday in Jumādá al-Ūlá 732(?) [1332] (fol. 125b; a note by a later hand on the right margin of the colophon mentions the date 739 [1338]).
• Incipit: بسم ... احمد الله على ان خول جزيل الطول وسدد الاصابة فى الفعل والقول ... فهذا ما سبق به الوضع من تهذيب مصنفى المترجم بالمعرب وتنميقه وترتيبه
• Explicit: لما وقع فى الكتب من التحريف والتصحيف فاقلنى عثرتى واستر عورتى وآمن روعتى برحمتك يا رحيم يا كريم

Binding note

Quarterbound with flap in yellow paper and golden brown leather. Paper pastedowns. Flap wanting.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, including one in the name of Muḥibb Allāh ibn Taqī al-Dīn al-Ḥanafī; of Muḥammad ʻĀbid ibn ʻAlāʾ al-Dīn; of Ṣādiq ... (obliterated), dated 1111 H. Erased large circular seal (350 mm.) on fol. 1a. Two impressions of a circular seal (210 mm.) on fol. 135b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1447

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

225178379

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