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. 315H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [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. 130 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and others are stained with dampness.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses.
• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه العون ... اما بعد حمد الله ذى الانعام اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and block-pressed paper. Multi-colored endbands. Re-used MS page showing through the damage on the upper cover.

Provenance

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

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 342.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1301394509

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