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. 318H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ, a treatise on syntax by al-Muṭarrizī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Marginal notes. On back of first page and folio before occur several Persian notes, a kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), and a quotation about the MS from Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 582/3. Following the colophon is a short Persian text, a few signatures and other inscriptions. Labels attached to upper cover with the title and "16".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red on folios 1-37.
• Description: Watermarks (serpent on cross above bull's head [later flyleaf only]; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied in 963 (fol. 77a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين الحمد لله الذى انزل من السماء الفرقان
• Explicit: انتهى تحرير الافتتاح بعناية الملك الفتاح يوم الاحد من اقل الجمادين سنة 963 تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped square motif and blind-tooled edging. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 350.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1303004633

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