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Subject(s)

• Thaʻlab, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá 815-904—Faṣīḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Lexicology—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. 290H [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Kitāb al-Faṣīḥ.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 50 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-5 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in very good condition.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied middle of Jumādá I 1265 (fol. 50a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان تمام نسخه في اوسط [اواسط] شهر جمادى الاول سنة 1265 غفر الله لکاتبه ولولديه ولمن دعا له بالمغفرة بجاه اشرف المرسلين عليه صلاة المخلوقات اجمعين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم. قال ابو سهل محمد بن علي بن محمد الهروي

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and dark marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 444.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 249.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• كتاب التلويح في شرح الفصيح
• Kitāb Sharḥ Faṣīḥ
• كتاب شرح فصيح

Title from text (fol. 1b)

• Kitāb al-Talwīḥ fī sharḥ al-Faṣīḥ

OCLC

1298250619

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