Details

Subject(s)

• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—ʻAwāmil al-jadīdah [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. 390H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-ʻAwāmil al-jadīdah of Bīr ʻAlī, known as Bīrkilī, which is a treatise on the grammatical regents.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Obscured signatures and seal impressions on folio before title page. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters) ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece with a red semi-circle outlined with red and black lines.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1127 (fol. 30a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل العالمين العاملين فائزين
• Colophon: تمت تاريخ سنة 1127

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Ismāʻīl dated 1129, Mūsá Afandnīk? dated 1290
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 464.
• Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 178.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1312756761

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