[المصباح في النحو] ... [الخ.]

[al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw] ... [etc.]

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[14th-16th century?]
Description
129 leaves : paper ; 170 x 123 (110-125 x 75-80) mm bound to 170 x 127 mm.

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    Summary note
    A collection of grammatical works.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions (fol. 1a) and on each title page (fol. 39a and 54a).
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 129 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 7-13 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition; staining with some loss of text.
    • Origin: [Kitāb Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj] Copied Walī ibn Ḥasan ibn Qāsim. This statement is dated 708 in a different ink, perhaps a later addition (fol. 129a). The MS is probably from the XVIth century.
    • Incipit: [المصباح في النحو] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اما بعد الحمد حمد الله ذى الانعام جاعل النحو [في] الكلام كالملح فى الطعام والصلوة على نبيه محمد ... -- [كتاب العوامل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة السلام على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فان العوامل فى النحو على ما الفه الامام عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن الجرجانى رحمه الله عليه مائة عامل ... -- [كتاب شرح الانموذج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذى جعل العربىة مفتاح البىان ... وبعد يقول العالم العابد الفاضل ... محمد بن عبد الغنى الاردبيلى ... لما رايت مختصر الامام الهمام ... انموذجه في النحو ...
    • Colophon: [المصباح في النحو] تمت المصباح عبد الله الملك الفتاح وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين -- [كتاب العوامل] تمت الكتال بعون الله الملك الوهاب والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمأب -- [كتاب شرح الانموذج] الحمد لله على التمام وللرسول افضل
    Binding note
    Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Flap is missing. Binding in poor condition.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1b-36b: [al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw]. On syntax by Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid al-Muṭarrizī.
    • 2. fol. 37a-38b: [Miscellaneous inscriptions] Prayers, note on how to tell is a fetus is male or female, story about the Prophet Muḥammad, etc.
    • 3. fol. 39a-53a: Kitāb al-ʻAwāmil fī ʻilm al-naḥw. On the hundred grammatical regents by ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī.
    • 4. fol. 53b: [Inscription]
    • 5. fol. 54a-129a: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj / lil-Shaykh Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ardabīlī. Commentary on Zamakhsharī's Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw.
    Provenance
    Ownership signature: Aḥmad Nasīmī dated '89 (fol. 129a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2021.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Kitāb Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj.
    • كتاب شرح الانموذج.
    OCLC
    1340420402
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