Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Shāfiyah [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. 341H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Shāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal notes and glosses. The name Jārabardī appears on the edge of the MS. The commentary, however, is not his but that of Nuqrahkār. On back of the first page, the folio before, and the last three folios occur several Persian notes and lines of poetry.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 174 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Copied 981? (fol. 1a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي علا بحوله ودنا بطوله مانح کل غنيمة وفضل وکاشف کل عطية وازل
• Colophon: تمت [تم] الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Lower cover and flap missing.

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., 392.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 9.
• Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 132.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1305359026

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