Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Morphology—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. 81L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A compendium of grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "343 KE". Inscriptions (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in black ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet letting "B ... cardo") ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال المفتقر الى الله الودود احمد ابن على ابن مسعود غفر الله له ... اعلم ان الصرف ام العلوم والنحو البوها ...
• Colophon: تم الكتاب

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled edging. Blue paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Seal impression: al-Sayyid Najm (fol. 1b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 425.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Marāḥ al-arwāḥ
• كتاب مراح الارواح

OCLC

1465416796

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