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Subject(s)

• Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī active 13th century—Marāḥ al-arwāḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm [Browse]

Related name

• محمد بن عبد الكريم [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 374H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. Aphorism and stray writing on title page. Seal impressions on fols. 11b and 83b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 84 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in fair condition but with considerable staining and several folios are mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 1 Rabīʻ I 957 in al-Mālud by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm (fol. 83b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه [نستعين] اللهم يا مصرف القلوب صرف قلوبنا نحو رضائك
• Colophon: تم الکتاب بعون الملك الوهاب في وقت الظهر في يوم السبت في اول ربيع الاول المبارك في بلد المالد على يد العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعى محمد بن عبد الکريم غفرالله لهما ولجميع المسلمين والمسلمات امين يا معين تاريخ سنة 957

Binding note

Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 429.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 487.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 10.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 498.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6814.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Dunqūz
• كتاب دنقوز

OCLC

1310845698

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