Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Poetry [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Attributed name

• Damanhūrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 102L [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]

Summary note

A poem on rhetoric. The title is given in the text as Ṭibb al-ʻuqūl al-ḥāʼirah. Brockelmann attributes the work to Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim al-Damanhūrī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 4 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 16 lines per page in two columns.
• Description: Watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet initials "AG") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from XlXth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. قال الدمنهوري سالم الفقير ... الحمد لله الذي قد علما * علم البيان منة وانعما
• Colophon: تمت هذه المنظومة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين امين امين تم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 577.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• منظومة في علم البيان
• طب العقول الحائرة

At head of title

• Manẓūmah fī ʻilm al-bayān

Title from text

• Ṭibb al-ʻuqūl al-ḥāʼirah

OCLC

1340424885

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