Details

Subject(s)

• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [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. 300H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 41 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown with a fleur-de-lis and a crescent on top, roman-alphabet letters "IC" with a staff[?] in between ) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1077 (fol. 41b).
• Title from colophon (fol. 41b).
• Colophon: تم شرح العوامل سنة 1077
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم توجهنا الى جنابك وقصدنا نحو بابك

Binding note

Paper wrapped around type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Gold-stamped mandorla and corner pieces. Similar decoration on flap. Paper wrapper has an unrelated statement inside written in gold-flecked ink in Ottoman Turkish dated 1135.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Owner's signature on folio before the first: Muṣṭafá Darajak. A seal impression dated 1178 appears on both fol. 10a and 41b.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6479.
• Brockelmann, GAL, I, p. 287.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 3993¹.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 279.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 315.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1300242352

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