Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan 837 or 838-933—Maqṣūrah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no.15H [Browse]

Contains

• Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, 837 or 838-933. Maqṣūrah. [Browse]
• ابن دريد، محمد بن الحسن، 837 or 838-933. مقصورة. [Browse]

Summary note

The text of, and commentary on, the famous ode of Ibn Durayd as related by Rabīʻah ibn Muḥammad al-Maʻmarī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes in red and black in different hands. On title page are eight verses of poetry. After the colophon are several quotations from the Qurʼān and a few wisdom verses. On the page following are ten verses by Abū Nuwās and a masʼalah on inheritance. The author of this commentary was a disciple of the famous grammarian Ibn Khālawayh (317-370/929-989/1), from whom he learned the ode.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 41 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 16-18 lines per page.
• Description: Text commented upon in bolder script ; some use of red ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed 684 (fol. 41a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر. قال ربيعة تن محمد العمري [المعمري] قرات نسخة هذه المقصوره على الشيخ ابى عبد الله الحسين بن خالويه النحوي ...
• Colophon: نجزت المقصورة بحمد الله وتوفيقه عشية الخميس سلخ المحرم سنة اربع وثمانين وستمائة

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in plain paste boards with fabric-enforced spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 20.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7546.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423552

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