Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 287H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the meaning of words of the same letters but with different vowel signs on the first syllable.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 42 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "BD") ; MS in very good condition.
• Few marginal notes. Fol. 1b bears a table of contents.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from bottom edge.
• Colophon: وما ذلك الالميامن سعادات من صنف له هذا الکتاب الموضوع على اسمه الشريف الکلام والحمد لله رب العالمين على وفور الانعام والصلوة والسلام على افضل الخلق واشرف الانام محمد خاتم الانبياء ومبلغ الانباء وسيد الکرام وعلى آله وصحابته الاعلام ما علم علام ولمع علام وملع غلام والحمد لله وحده والله اعلم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اشرف ما نطق به المصدع المحدث

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers, gold-stamped motif on flap. Decorative blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Owner signatures: Muḥammad Hidāyah Afandī and Sayyidī ʻAlī Nadá (fol. 1a); Rustam ibn ... [?] al-Shurūlī and Aḥmad Millī Mīrʹdārādah [?] dated Ṣafar 1151 (fol. 3a)

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 374.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 284.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1298232847

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