Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Synonyms and antonyms—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. 312H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A thesaurus of the Arabic language.

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 223 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition with a small amount of insect damage.
• Layout: 13 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal notes. On title page are several verses of poetry and some notes in Persian. Fol. 228b has some family records.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Ending: سروا سروت سروتا سرون سروت سروتما سروتم
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر. الحمد لله الذي جعل العربية مفتاح التنزيل

Binding note

Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
• Ownership signatures Muḥammad ʻAqīl dated 15 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1230 (fol. 1b), Fayṣal, muftī in the Ottoman Empire dated 1115 (fol. 2b).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6968.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4255.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 608.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 384/5.
• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 336.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب الاقناع لغة

Title on lower edge

• Kitāb al-Iqnāʻ lughah

OCLC

1301430610

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