Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Syntax—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. 395H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on syntax.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Title on lower edge. Ownership signature on title page. Work composed in Constantinople 1113 [1701].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 77 + ii ; catchwords ; foliated in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 10 Jumādá II 1124 (fol. 77b).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لمن اليه يصعد الکلم الطيب
• Colophon: تمت في شوال تحريرا في يوم العاشر من شهر جماد [ى] الاخر لسنة اربعة وعشروين [وعشرين] ومائة والف سنة 1124

Binding note

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

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ḥasan, a mufti, purchased from Aḥmad Afandī al-Ṣaḥḥāf? (fol. 1a); signature following the colophon for Shaykh Ḥasan, al-muftī fī Mudarris ʻAlī... [?] dated 1143.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 476.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 96.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1313953020

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