Details

Subject(s)

• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 302H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Leather doublures (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tuǧras [Browse]
• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on ʻAwāmil al-miʼah by ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 46 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; fol. 40 is marbled paper ; watermarks (circular design with star on top [orb?]) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لمن وجب علينا ثنائه ولمن لا يزول من حب النعم علينا غنائه
• Colophon: تم بعون الله الملك الوهاب

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled and gold-filled edging. Leather doublure.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Owner's seal impressions and signatures on fol. 1 and the folio preceding it, upper doublure, fol. 22b, and the third leaf following the end of the text: Aḥmad Pāshā; stamp impression Ḥusayn dated 362 (repeated 3 times); Rūḥī Fadāk ibn Ṣanam Abṭaḥī; seal impression Muṣṭafá ʻAbduh; and others.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 319.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6480/1.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 150.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 150.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1300334539

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