Details

Subject(s)

• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ 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. 314H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

Commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d. 610/1213).

Notes

• Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor in circle with star on top, countermark in roman-alphabet letters "IB"[?]) ; MS in good condition.
• Layout: 13-17 lines per page.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On the title page occur two verses of poetry in praise of the work, several seal impressions and other writing. Immediately after colophon and on page following occur some grammatical notes in Arabic and Turkish and a tradition.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 968 (fol. 116a).
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Explicit: وقد زقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة ... تاريخ سنة 968
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قول اما بعد حمد الله فرى الانعام اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء لازمة لها

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Front pastedown and flap lined with re-used MS pages.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 341.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب الضو

Title on lower edge

• Kitāb al-Ḍaw

OCLC

1301394512

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