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. 378H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Maqṣūd.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Pastedowns, title page, and fol. 72b contain title repetitions and other writing. In Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 418² the work is attributed to Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mughriṭ, 912 [1506/7].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20-21 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining ; watermarks (clover) ; MS in fair condition but several folios are mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين.الحمد لله المتعالي عن الاخبار الرجعة العلوجية
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب واحسن التوفيق

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled decorative edging. Cover in poor condition, mended.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 309.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 91/2.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 205¹.
• Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, II, 418².
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4189.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1311518097

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