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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 389H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Iẓhār al-asrār fī al-naḥw.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 10a).
• Heavily annotated with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Notes precede the text on fols. 1b-9a and follow the colophon on fols.178b-182a. Title on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 182 + (4) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Overlining in red ; some vowel signs ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1146 by ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad in Sinklār, Kastal (fol. 178a).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... اما بعد فيقول العبد المفتقر الى لطف ربه المقتدر
• Colophon: قد تم [تمت] هذه الاوراق والتحرير بعون الله الملك النصير من يد الفقير الحقير المحتاج الى ربه القدير السيد علي ابن السيد محمد في قرية سنکلر عن قضاء کستل وقت العشاء سنة ستة واربعين ومائة والف. تم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Orange paper pastedowns. Endbands. Covers and flap overlaid with additional layer of paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 472.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 749.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1312756924

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