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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. 299H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 53 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Marginal notes and glosses. Folios 1, 2 and 53 have a number of calculations using Hindu-Arabic numerals and roman-alphabet numbers and roman-alphabet writing in pencil.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Colophon: تمت والحمدلله وحده وصلى الله على من لانبي بعده سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرا دائمًا متصلا وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رضي فعل ماضي معلوم

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and red, yellow and green marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6490.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 321.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1300235065

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