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. 391H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

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

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on al-ʻAwāmil al-Jadīdah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Fols. 1a-3a have inscriptions including a few lines of poetry.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 68 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece with gold, orange and blue. Fols. 3b and 4a frame-ruled in gold.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي رفع السموات بلا عماد
• Colophon: قد تيسر الاتمام بعون الله الملك العلام في اواخر الربيع الاول من حجة اربع واربعين ومائة والف من هجرة من ارتدى بالعز والشرف وصلى الله تعالى عليه وعلى آله اجمعين آمين ويا معين

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Foil-stamped mandorla with gold painted outline decoration. Gold-tooled or painted decorative edging. Gold-tooled or painted edging on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Seal impression for al-Sayyid Rifʻat Aḥmad, and editing signatures for Muḥammad ʻAṭāʼ Allāh and Mīr? Muḥammad dated [1]226. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 466.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6789.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 172³.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

اعراب العوامل لزيني‌زادة

Title from lower edge of text block

• Iʻrāb al-ʻAwāmil li-Zaynīʹzādah

OCLC

1312756867

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