Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 381H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 3a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. A statement on title page attributes the work to Muḥammad ibn Farāmirz [sic], known as Mawlānā Khusraw, and another from al-Shaqāʼiq al-Nuʻmānīyah of Ṭāshkubrīzādah stating that more correctly the work is of the authorship of al-Qūshjī. The two folios preceding the title page have several notes, including one about Sūrat al-Dukhān, and a list of dual nouns. Following the colophon is a note that the MS was compared and corrected beginning to end.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 178 + ii ; catchwords ; foliation in ink in Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (bull's head) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لمن جلت اسماوءه عن ان يغيرها حال
• Colophon: حامدين لله على التوفيق للاتمام ومصلين ومسلمين على رسوله سيد الانام وعلى اله واصحابه ومن تابعهم باحسان الى يوم القيام. م

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh with his seal impression; ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mudarris with his seal impression
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 460.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 270.
• Brockelmann, GAL, II, p. 235.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1311593586

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