Details

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. 357H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. On five folios following colophon occurs Bināʼ al-Afʻāl, an anonymous work on grammar. It was copied in 1175 [1761/2]. Various inscriptions on covers, lower pastedown, 88b [bis] and 89b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 89 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 14 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (coat of arms, roman-alphabet letters "AMB"?) ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين ... والدين زين الاسلام والمسلمين ابي الفضائل عبد الوهاب
• Colophon: للفرق بينه وبين المرة تمت [تم] الکتاب

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in light brown paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs. Blind-tooled geometric designs across covers. Multi-colored endbands. Blue paper pastedowns. Spine is mended.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 402.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 502.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 957.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 205².

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Bināʼ al-Afʻāl.
• بناء الافعال.

OCLC

1308980208

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