Details

Subject(s)

• Jāmī 1414-1492—Fawāʼid al-Ḍiyāʼīyah [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800 [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. 328H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Fawāʼid al-Ḍiyāʼīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Extensive marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Slips of paper with notes and glosses are attached to the folios. Fol. 1a has a paragraph on praying for the dead, signatures and a geometric design in red.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 252 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 8-19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended, and the top of fol. 1 is missing.
• Incipit: يا هاديا مسالك محامدك ويا سامعا لجامع مسائل محامدك اهدنا الصراط المستقيم
• Colophon: وما حذف متفرع على الحذف في حالة الوقف. اخر

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue block-stamped paper. Endbands.

Provenance

• Waqf stamp: Waqf Kitabkhānah-i al-Ḥājj Muḥammad 1253 (fol. 27a).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 376.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 10.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6579.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 17.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1304506338

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