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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. 319H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on the preface to al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Signatures, seal impressions and short extracts on folios before and after the text.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 17 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red folios 1-8.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some folios are tinted or marbled ; watermarks (two crescents, circular design) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين. فهذه اوراق لاعراب ديباجة المصباح
• Ending: وهو الباب الخامس بالاستقراء لا بالعقل لان العقل يجوز ان يکون شيئاً آخر غير الخامس تمت بعون الله الملك المنان

Binding note

Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue marbled paper. Violet paper pastedowns.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures include: Muṣṭafá ibn Rajab with his seal impression, Ḥusayn al-Qāḍī, seal impression of ʻInāyat Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá, al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim signature and seal impression with the date "65", ʻAbd al-Qādir Janbīdah, seal impression of Maḥmūd ibn Shāh Qulī, ʻUthmān Chalabī ibn Mullā Wasʻatī Afandī ibn Mudarris.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 354.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 584.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 486ˡˡ.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 934ˡˡˡ, 935ˡ.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6545/6ˡ.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1303004684

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