Kitāb Sirr al-balāghah wa-yuqāl lahu ayḍan Fiqh al-lughah - Thaʻālibī, ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad, 961 or 962-1037 or 1038.
Treatise on synonyms and style, in two parts (qism): Fī asrār al-lughah al-ʻarabīyah wa-khaṣāʾiṣihā (fol. 4b-80a, in 30 bāb) -- Fī majārī kalām al-ʻArab wa-rusūmihā wa-sunanihā wa-mā yataʻallaqu bi-al-naḥw wa-al-iʻrāb [min-hā] wa-al-istishhād bi-al-Qurʾān ʻalá aktharihā (fol. 80a-121a). See description of contents in preamble, fol. 2a-4b. The beginning of the text is supplied by a later hand.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a, later hand).
Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink, with use of red for headins; red tear drop text-stops. . Soft cream paper, hardly translucid, with pulp visible through. Fol. 1 and 119 are later replacements. Biographical note on the author on fol. 1a. Verse of poetry on the pastedown of the upper cover. The pages have been trimmed. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 3a).
Spine label with inscription in Arabic script reading: "Fiqh al-lughah lil-Thaʻālibī makhṭūṭ 653".
Origin: According to colophon, copied by Jarbān(?) ibn Mūsá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khartabirtī, Saturday 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal corresponding to 17 Nīsān 653 [April 17, 1255] (fol. 121a).
Acquired by Robert Garrett from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut), 1925.
Keywords: Arabic language -- Lexicology -- History -- 10th century -- Sources; Arabic language -- Lexicology -- History -- 11th century -- Sources; Arabic language -- Synonyms and antonyms -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 13th century; manuscripts (documents)