Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Rhetoric—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. 436H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from heading (fol. 1b).
• Extensive marginal and interlinear notes and glosses on first 25 folios.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red on first 30 folios.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet initials "[?]B" with clover in between) ; MS in good condition, light staining around edges.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لمن جعل علم البلاغة من المعاني والبيان وسيلة الى فهم لطائف القرآن
• Colophon: الحمد لله على الاتمام ثم الصلوة والسلام على افضل الانام وعلى آله الکرام بعون لله الملك العلام. تمت

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather and paper. Covers appear to be cut down and re-used with stamped mandorla visible under paper covering.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 564.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Munaqqaḥāt
• كتاب منقحات

OCLC

1331147813

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