Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 956H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on classifications, genera and species, discussing the relationships and the differences between them.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 9 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three crescents, cross on hills) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله على مزيد افضاله ... هذه رسالة وجيزة لامعه عزيزة عند خاطبها ...
• Colophon: وهذا آخر ما اردنا وايراده والله نسال ان يديم علينا امداده وخيره وجبره وارشاده آمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه وسلم تم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Ḥasan al-Jabartī al-Ḥanafī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 856.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 567.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Risālah fī al-taqsīm wa-al-maqsim wa-al-qasīm
• رسالة في التقسيم والمقسم والقسيم

OCLC

1340422584

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