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Subject(s)

• Islam—Doctrines—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects [Browse]
• Islamic poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn ʻĀshir, ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Aḥmad, 1582 or 3-1630 or 31. Murshid al-muʻīn. [Browse]
• ابن عاشر، عبد الواحد بن احمد. مرشد المعين. [Browse]
• Sanūsī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, approximately 1427-approximately 1490. Umm al-barāhīn. [Browse]
• سنوسي، محمد بن يوسف. ام البراهين. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Text 1: 11-12 lines per page in two columns; written in maghribi script in brownish-black ink on modern white paper. Vocalized; catchwords. Headings and some vocalization in magenta. Columns framed in double violet lines; headings framed in double magenta lines. Dated 1345 AH (1926 or 7).
• Text 2: 21 lines per page in two columns; written in maghribi script in brownish-black ink on modern white paper. Vocalized; catchwords and rubrication. Text framed triple red lines; hemistiches separated by gilt discs. Some smearing of ink due to water damage, but text still legible.
• Text 3: 15 lines per page; written in maghribi script in black on modern white paper. Vocalized. Headings and keywords in blue, red, and yellow. Text framed in blue and double red lines.
• Text 4: 13 lines per page; written in large, crude maghribi script in brownish-black ink on modern white paper. Lines marked with violet pencil; numerical values written above corresponding words.
• Text 5: 23 lines per page; written in maghribi script in black ink on modern white, lined paper. Keywords and vocalization in magenta.
• Fol. 15a, 25b, 26b, 32 blank. Fol. 15b, 31 contain notes.

Binding note

Quarter red leather with paper-covered boards, white endpapers.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-14b: al-Murshid al-muʻīn / bi-yaday ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn ʻĀshir. An urjuzah on the fundamentals of Islam.
• 2. fol. 16a-17b: Poems.
• 3. fol. 18a-25a: Unidentified grammatical treatise.
• 4. fol. 26a: Numerical values of various words.
• 5. fol. 27a-30a: [Umm al-barāhīn] / Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī.

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Source acquisition

2000/3/10 (2000-76).

OCLC

611408113

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