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Subject(s)

• Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar 1075-1144—Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw [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. 308H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Unmūdhaj.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 46 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, countermark in roman-alphabet letters "BC" with a clover in between) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Marginal notes. On back of the first page occurs a paragraph on the history of Arabic syntax. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1a. Two seal impressions on fol. 30a. MS incomplete at the end. Invocations to the Prophet Muhammad on fol. 46a.
• Ms. codex.
• Title in later land on fol. 1a.
• Ending: يکون الاضراب عن الفعل دون حرف النفي فقول المص
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل العربية مفتاح البيان

Binding note

Quarter-bound type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Flap is missing.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6516/7.
• Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 597.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4005.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 93/4.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 468.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 329.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 224-6.
• Vollers, Katalog der Islamischen, Christlich-Orientalischen, Judischen und Samaritanischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig, 416/7.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1301391713

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