Details

Subject(s)

• 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. 460H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• holographs (autographs) [Browse]

Summary note

Autography copy of a treatise on the science of dialectics.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes.
• Collation: Paper ; i + 87 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17-20 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Sājiqlīʹzādah (fol. 87b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبحمده وصلوة على رسوله يقول البائس الفقير محمد المرعشي المدعو بساچقلى زاده ... هذه تقرير القوانين
• Colophon: الحمد لله على التمام وعلى رسوله افضل الصلوة والسلام يقول البائس الفقير محمد المدعو بساچقلي زاده اکرﻣ[ﻪ] الله تعالى بالفلاح والسعادت تمت الرسالة بعون الله الملک الوهاب م

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper. Red paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Seal impressions on flyleaf and fol. 1a in the names of Ḥusayn and Muṣṭafá. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 918.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, II, p. 270, VII, p. 89.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5333.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

تقرير القوانين من الاداب

Title from flyleaf

• Taqrīr al-qawānīn min al-ādāb

OCLC

1337060538

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