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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. 342H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A commentary on al-Shāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Several inscriptions on upper pastedown and fol. 1a, mostly regarding the work or previous owners.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 156 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; folios 1-50 are by a different hand ; watermarks (three "c"s ; bird in a circle standing on three mounds; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied on a Tuesday late Shawwāl 1063 (fol. 156a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال سيدنا ومولانا وقدوتنا الى الله تعالى شيخ مشايخ الاسلام
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلات [الثلاثاء] المبارك اواخر شوال المبارك سنة 1063 وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل. تم

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Currently unsewn. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanbalī, imām of Jāmiʻ al-Sharīf al-Dīn al-Umawī; Muṣṭafá ibn Khalīl al-Ṣabbān purchased from Muḥammad Afandī al-Khamīṣī; Ibrāhīm [?] (fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 394.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 5.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 18.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4062.
• Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 130.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1305313567

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