Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Fawzī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• فوزي، علي بن ابراهيم active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 294H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related work(s)

• Ḥarīrī, 1054-1122. Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fī awhām al-khawāṣṣ. [Browse]
• حريري، 1054-1122. درة الغواص في اوهام الخواص. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of the work of al-Ḥarīrī 446-516 [1054/5-1122] entitled Durrat al-ghawwāṣ fīmā wahama ʻalá al-khawāṣṣ, which is a collection of strictures on the erroneous use of various expressions.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 51 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-6 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; MS in good condition but several folios are stained with dampness and fol. 50 is defective.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes and glosses. A slip of paper bearing the title is pasted on the outside of the front cover. Title page has a list of other works by the author, and an account about al-Ḥarīrī.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon writing completed Friday 14 Rabīʻ I 1097, text copied Thursday [?] Rabīʻ II 1131 by ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fawzī al-Ḥasanī. (fol. 51a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الخميس المبارك ختام شهر ربيعى [ربيع] الثاني من شهور سنة 1131 على يد احقر وافقر واحوج الورى الى مغفرة ربه علي بن السيد ابراهيم الفوزي الحسني غفر الله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين ولکل من کتب منه او طالع فيه ودعا له بالعفو والمغفرة والمسامحة امين والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي حمدا سهل سبل القرب منه لقاصده

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 268.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1300227245

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