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Subject(s)

• Fanārī, Muḥammad ibn Ḥamzah 1350 or 1351-1430 or 1431—Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth [Browse]
• Dialectic—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. 549H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth, a treatise on the rules of dialectics by Shams al-Dīn Fanārī.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from cover.
• Marginal notes and glosses. Additional notes in Arabic and Persian on fol. 22b-24b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 20 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (crown and grapes, roman-alphabet letters in an oval "P[heart]C...") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1105 (fol. 20a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم. اللهم ىا مجىب دعوى السائلىن
• Colophon: والرسالة ختمت في سنة خمس ومائة والف من هجرة من له العز الشرف

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Lightly tinted paper pastedowns.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Abū al-ʻAṣīm (fol. 1a). Seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad Rifʻat (fol. 1a and 20b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 917.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1337059929

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