Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—16th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Qūṣūnī, Madyan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• قوصوني، مدين بن عبد الرحمن [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on grammatical usage of the ʻawāmm commonly considered as mistakes but which are actually correct. According to a note added to the title on fol. 1a, this volume also contains Fiqh al-lughah by al-Thaʻalibī. This text is not in the volume as extant.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a). The same title appears in the preamble of the text (fol. 1b).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Entries written in red on the margins. European paper with watermark.
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on 3 Ramaḍān 1005 [April 20, 1597] (fol. 30a, followed by verses of poetry attributed to ʻAlī al-Ghamrī).
• Incipit: بسم ... احمد من من علر العرب اى منه فجعل لسانهم لسان اهل الجنة واصطفى افصح الفصاح من معدن قريش البطاح ... اما بعد فيقول ... محمد بن ابراهيم بن الحنبلى مولدا النادفى محتدا القادرى مشربا الحنفى مذهبا انطقه الله بصواب الاقوال وصرف اليه تواب الاعمال قد عن لى وعوايق الهموم
• Explicit: وهذا يسقط قول ابى عمرو فيما نقله الجوابيغي عن الاحمعي عنه وديوان بالفتح خطا والله اعلم بالصواب

Binding note

Quarter bound in marbled paper and brown leather.

Provenance

Reading statement in the name of Aḥmad Abū al-Saʻūd on the pastedown of the upper cover (repeated on fol. 30b, with name reading: Aḥmad Abū al-Saʻūd al-Maqdisī al-Shāfiʻī al-Khalwaṭī) ; in the name of ʻUmar Abū al-Saʻūd on fol. 1a. Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, in the name of Madyan al-Ṭabīb [Madyan al-Qūṣūnī], dated 1005 H., with seal ; and of Muḥammad al-Sābūlī(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3696
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 496 (2/29)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

233848116

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