Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Musawwirī, al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Muqrī, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• مسوري، الحسين بن احمد المقري، active 17th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 293H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A glossary of rare words used by ancient poets, arranged according to subject-matter.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 101 + i ; catchwords ; every 10th folio numbered in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "[?]B" ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 16-18 lines per page ; fol. 1b-2a frame-ruled.
• Marginal notes. On page after the colophon is a quotation from Maʻālim al-tanzīl of al-Farrāʼ al-Baghawī, 510 [1117].
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 2[?] Ramaḍān 1065 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Muqrī al-Musawwirī (fol. 101a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الملك الوهاب والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم اجمعين. بتاريخ نهار الثلثاء من شهر رمضان المعظم من شهور سنة خمسة وستون [ستين] بعد الف [الالف] بخط افقر الورى واحوجهم اليه الحسين بن احمد المقري المسوري ... کتبه في بحر ... هجرة المضرع حرسه الله ... برسم الشيخ الاکمل عين السبعة الاخيار والفضلاء الابرار علي بن عبد الله کاتب مولاي السيد الجليل علي بن ابرهيم امتع بجيوته ... تقبل الله من الجميع بحق محمد واله
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله مخرج الاشياء من العدم الى الوجود

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

On title page are two autographs of owners, one obliterated, the other for al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad [?] dated 1225.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7039.
• Browne, Supplementary hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1316.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 68.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 354.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 267.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 918ˡˡˡ, 1214ˡ.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1300227076

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