Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥifnī, Muḥammad ibn Sālim 1689 or 1690-1767 or 1768—Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Sharṭīyah [Browse]
• ʻAbbās Afandī—Risālah al-Sharṭīyah [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. 959H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Sharṭīyah, a commentary by al-Ḥifnī on al-Risālah al-Sharṭīyah, a work on grammar by ʻAbbās Afandī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red, commentary in black ; watermarks (Maltese cross) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copy completed Monday 5 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1172 by Ḥasan al-Jabartī (fol. 11b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اذا شكرنا الله ... وبعد فيقول الفقير الى لطف ربه الحيفى حسن بن ابراهيم الجبرتي ... لما اطلعت على الرسالة الشرطية التى الفها افضل العلما ...
• Colophon: تمت على يد کاتبها الفقير حسن الجبرتي تبييضًا من مصودتها [مسودتها] في ليلة الاثنين الموافق الخامس ذي الحجة الحرام من سنة اثنين وسبعين ومائة والف تم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 478.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420752

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