Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Ājurrūm, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad 1273 or 1274-1323—Ajurrūmīyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Zabādī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, active 17th century [Browse]

Related name

• زبادي، محمد بن محمد، active 17th century [Browse]
• Nūr al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, 1567 or 1568-1635 [Browse]
• نور الدين الحلبي، علي بن ابراهيم، 1567 or 1568-1635 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 362H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Muqaddimah al-Ājurrūmīyah. The commentary is a collection of the opinions of Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Burhān al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī 975-1044 [1567/8-1635].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. The title page and two folios prior have a variant title, calligraphy, and a list of bābs. After the colophon occur 5 lines of poetry and two statements, one about an eclipse in Constantinople 1071 [1661] and the other about an uprising in Aleppo 1184 [1770].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 49 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1041 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zabādī (fol. 49a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لك اللهم على ما الهمت من دقائق العربية
• Colophon: تم الکتاب في اواخر شوال سنة 1041 تکاملت نعم السرور لصاحبه وعفي [عفا] الاله بفضله وبجوده عن کاتبه الفقير محمد بن محمد الزبادي

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper. Blind-stamped mandorla, outlined and decorated with gold paint. Gold painted edging. Blue paper pastedowns.

Provenance

• Ownership statements: Isḥaq Janānīʹzādah, Ibn Janānīʹzādah[?], and seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim (fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 436.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 91.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6682/3.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 210.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1308981853

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