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Subject(s)

• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb [Browse]
• ابن هشام، عبد الله بن يوسف—مغني اللبيب عن كتب الاعاريب [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Egypt—Cairo—16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a commentary on Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb, a treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf known as Ibn Hishām (d. 762/1360).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 21 lines per page. Written in medium small square naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Frame in gold outlined in black on fol. 1b-2a. European paper with watermark, glossy. Fol. (i) is a later added fly-leaf (European paper with watermark). Marginal annotations (mainly collation notes). Title on tail of text-block. Kabīkaj and ownership statements on fol. 1a. Note mentioning the birth date of a Fāṭimah on 26 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1051 on fol. 353a. Worm-eaten ; loose quires.
• Decoration: Illuminated title page executed in gold, blue, and white (fol. 1a). Panel defined by fillets in black ink and divided in three uneven parts. The upper and lower cartouches bear the title; the central square, the authority statement. The inscriptions are in white on a ground consisting of floral intertwined motifs in blue and gold.
• Collation: Paper, fol. i, 355 ; i (later added fly-leaf; European paper) 1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-31¹⁰ 32¹⁰ (+2, fol. 318-319) 33-35¹⁰ 36⁴ ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Abshahī balad[an] wa-al-Azharī muwaṭṭanan wa-al-Mālikī madhhaban, and completed on Tuesday 28 Ramaḍān 974 [April 8, 1567] (fol. 352b). On the right margin: Collation statement by ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan ibn Manṣūr al-Musīrī(?) (the same name appears at the end of the colophon), who collated the text on copies "mukhtalifah fī al-alfāẓ wa-al-maʻānī".
• Incipit: بسم ... اللهم لا سهل الا ما جعلته سهلا وانت اذا شيت تجعل الحزن سهلا الحمد لله الذي فتق السن العرب العاربة بالفصاحة ... وبعد فان لنا حاشية على مغنى اللبيب لابن هشام مسماة بالفتح القريب اودعتها من الفوايد والفرايد

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for covers and flap. Upper and lower covers have a central blind-stamped mandorla filled with a floral motif, with two pendants on the vertical axis. The outer border consists of fillets. Brown leather doublure. Envelope flap detached.

Provenance

Four ownership statements and impression of two seals on fol. 1a, including one partly erased dated 9-4 H. and one in the name of ʻAlī ibn Amr Allāh ibn Muḥammad, dated 975 H. Ownership statement in the name of ʻAlī ibn Ḥasan al-Musīrī(?) on fol. 352b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī (1995), no. 486

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ shawāhid al-Mughnī fī al-naḥw
• شرح شواهد المغني في النحو

OCLC

228459355

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