Details

Subject(s)

• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Iẓhār al-asrār [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Bābā Ṭāghī, ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• بابا طاغي، عثمان بن علي، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 388H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on Iẓhār al-asrār.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes. Fol. 1a has various inscriptions including waqf and ownership statements, a note that the MS was corrected by Muḥammad Ḥilmī dated 1186, a seal impression, and a repetition of the line "iʻrāb is like a spiderweb".
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 160 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "[?]SSET"; coat of arms or a crown) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 28 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1171 by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-Bābā Ṭāghī (fol. 160a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي رفع داء الجهل عنا بانزال قرآن عربي بيسن الهدى علينا
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ بحمد الله الملك المعين على يد [اﻟ]ﻌﺒﺪ الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة ربه اللطيف عثمان بن علي بن الحاج مصطفى بن الحاج علي البابا طاغي غفر الله [له] ولا بائه ولا مهاته ولجميع للمومنين والمؤمنات في [اﻟ]ﯧﻮم الثامن والعشرين من ذي الحجة الشريفة بعد العصر من يوم السبت في سنة احدى وسبعين ومائة والف م

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and paper. Cover repaired with black and red marbled paper.

Provenance

• Ownership signature: Asaʻd Ismāʻīl ibn Muṣṭ[afá] ibn Aḥmad ... al-shahīr bi-Ibn Ismāʻīl Afandī al-Wārdār dated 1209. Waqf inscription for Madrasat Ghazī [?] Bik.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 471.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1312757191

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