Details

Subject(s)

• Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—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. 377H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• magic squares [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Maqṣūd.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal glosses and interlinear notes on first two folios. On upper cover, title page and two pages preceding the first occur several autographs of owners and a few notes, one dated 1235. After colophon and on following folio are two magic squares, an autograph of an owner, a Turkish note and opening words of al-Burdah of al-Būṣīrī.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs on first three folios ; watermarks (circular design with countermark roman-alphabet letters "Vd" with clower in between) ; MS in fair condition with staining across the top of most leaves.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الواهب کل موهوب
• Colophon: ولوالدي ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات م م م

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper. Multi-colored lower endband.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Presumably the same owner variously signed as: Isḥaq Ḥaqqī Janānīʹzādah, Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Amīn, and Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Amīn Janānīʹzādah. Another owner signature: ʻAbd al-[?] ibn Muḥammad.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 306.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1311517982

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