Details

Subject(s)

• Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431—Fawāʼid al-Fanārīyah [Browse]
• Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī, al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʻUmar -1265—Īsāghūjī [Browse]
• Logic—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. 471H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• tuǧras [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on al-Fawāʼid al-Fanārīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes. Aphorism about cutting coth on Sundays on upper pastedown. Title on lower edge of text block illegible. A line of secret letters, a paragraph on using secret letters and two tughras written in red ink on fol. 57b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 57 ; occasional catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 14-17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; watermarks (hand with a star or flower) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Jumādá al-Ūlá 923 (fol. 57a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي زين الاذهان باکتساب التصور والنصديق ... اما بعد فنقول المحتاج الى رضوان الله الملك المجيد برهان الدين بن كمال الدين ين حميد ...
• Colophon: الحمد لمن وفقني على تتميم تنميق هذه النسخة الشريفة والشکر لمن هداني الى دين محمد اشرف البرية المصطفى من بين افراد ... الانسانية . ضحى يوم الثلثاء من جمادى الاولى سنة ثلث وعشرين وتسعمائة من الهجرة المصطفية والحمد لله والسلام

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Blind-tooled edging. Multi-colored endbands. Blind-stamped mandorla visible through cutout inside lower cover.

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., 813.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 504.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, pp. 53, 66, 75.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 732³.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 897⁸.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340423202

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