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Subject(s)

• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar 1075-1144—Mufaṣṣal [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 307Hq [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Summary note

Part of a commentary on al-Mufaṣṣal. The commentary commences with the verb. Incomplete at end.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal glosses. MS is one of the oldest in the collection.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 128 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 26-29 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: A few vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpaper only: anchor topped by a star) ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
• Origin: End of qism 3 dated 10 Jumādá al-Ūlá 665 (fol. 82a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال رضي الله عنه الفعل ما دل على
• Ending: فيقولوا تفاذونا [تفادونا] وترجونا اذا کان

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Spine largely missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 327.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, pp. 38, 42.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Muḥaṣṣal fī sharḥ al-Mufaṣṣal
• كتاب المحصل في شرح المفصل

Title from upper edge of text block possibly reads

• Jild al-thānī fī Kitāb al-Muḥaṣṣal fī sharḥ al-Mufaṣṣal

OCLC

1340423090

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