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Subject(s)

• Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm active 1257—Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf [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. 356H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal and interlinear notes. On the folio following the colophon are inscriptions related to prayer and language.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 67 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17-21 lines per page ; some folios frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Title page carries the date 1254 which could be the date of MS production.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ان اروى زهر تجر [يخرج في] رياض الکام [الکلام]
• Ending: او غيرها للنوع واکذا [وکذا] البواقي. تم

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Cover is badly worn. Orange paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 398.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 208.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 7/8.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 501.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6617/8.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 200².

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ ʻIzzī Saʻd al-Dīn
• شرح عزي سعد الدين

OCLC

1308980073

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