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Subject(s)

• Islamic literature, Arabic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Religious life—Islam—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf [Browse]

Related name

• حنبلي، محمد بن عبد اللطيف [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

The famous fifty ʻʻassembliesʼʼ of al-Zamakhsharī, otherwise known as al-Naṣāʼiḥ al-kibār.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 50 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-5 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS is rare ; MS in fair condition, staining across top of entire text.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 16 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1145 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 48b).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تمت المقامات للزمخشري ليلة السبت ليلة ستة عشر من شهر ذي القعدة سنة خمس واربعين وماية وألف على يد العبد الضعيف محمد بن عبداللطيف الحنبلي غفر الله تعالى له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجميعن. ام
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب انعمت فزد. واحمده على ما ادرج لي من آلائه

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and and brown spotted paper. Pastedowns and flyleaves in brown paper.

Provenance

After colophon is a seal bearing the name "Sayyid Muḥammad..." with a date. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8749.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 348³, 379.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 347.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 201.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1288343958

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