Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Ḥanafī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, active 14th century [Browse]

Related name

• حنفي، احمد بن احمد، active 14th century [Browse]
• ابن الناظم، محمد بن محمد، -1287 or 1288 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 354H [Browse]

Attributed name

• Ibn al-Nāẓim, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1287 or 1288 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of syntax.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. It is likely that the author is Badr al-Dīn ibn Mālik, 686 [1287], the son of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Mālik 600-672 [1203/4-1274].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; several folios are tinted light brown ; MS in fair condition; several folios are foxed and mended. It appears that the edge of the MS was trimmed.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 17 Rabīʻ I 788 by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 19b).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الهادي من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم
• Colophon: ... تم الکتاب بحمد العزيز الوهاب في سابع عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنة ثمان وثمانين وسبعمائة على يد العبد الفقيرالى الله تعالى احمد ابن احمد الحنفي عامله الله تع[الى] بلطفه الخفي وحسبنا الله ونعم

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed design. Violet paper pastedowns.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Zayn al-Dīn al-Anṣārī[?]; Muḥammad[?] ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd [?] dated 991(fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 421.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1306453831

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