Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 144H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgement of the famous book of al-Abshīhī.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 114 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Written in naskhi ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. Title page bears some obliterated writing. On the first three folios is a table of contents.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وهذا آخر ما اردنا جمعه من هذا المختصر على التمام والکمال والحمد لله على کل حال. وقدتم هذا الکتاب المسمى بمختصر المستطرف على التمام والکمال والحمد لله . م
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الملك القدير الحليم الخبير

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in yellow paper. Green paper pastedowns. Endbands.

Provenance

Folios 18a and 26b have the name of an owner, Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn al-Fārighi. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 212.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Mukhtaṣar al-Mustaṭraf alladhī ḥuwiya min kull fann mustaẓraf
• كتاب مختصر المستطرف الذي حوي من كل فن مستظرف

OCLC

1288687684

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