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Subject(s)

• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá [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. 69L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

Comments by the author on his own work on grammar entitled Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes. Stray writing on folio 79b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Some use of red for overlining and abbreviations ; MS in fair condition, yellowed with dampness.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIlth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة حجة العرب لسان الادب ... بن هشام الانصارى الحمد لله رافع الدرجا.. لمن انخفض لجلاله ... وبعد فهذه نكت حررتها على مقدمتى المسماة بقطر الندا ...
• Colophon: ...[سي]دنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين تم تم تم تم

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 451.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422422

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