Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Verb—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. 1170H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Contains

• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?. ʻAwāmil al-miʼah. [Browse]
• جرجاني، عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن، -1078؟ عوامل المائة. [Browse]

Summary note

Three grammatical texts.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from preface of first work (fol. 1b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 59 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 6-13 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and general scripts ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-16: roman-alphabet initials with trefoil; fol. 25-59: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in red, black and blue (fol. 1b).
• Origin: [Paradigms] Copied in 1235 (fol. 23b)
• Colophon: [العوامل] تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب م م م -- [Paradigms] تمت التابعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة 1235 اللهم صلى على سيدنا محمد وال محمد ... -- [Grammatical work] واما الحروف فلم يكتب منها بالياء غير بلي والي وعلي وحتي
• Incipit: [العوامل] بسم الله الرحمن نالرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصاوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فان العوامل في النحو علي ما الفه الشيخ الامام عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن الجرجاني ... -- [Paradigms] مثال اسم القاعل ... مثال اسم المفعول ... -- [Grammatical work] ... بخلاف تغلبي علي الافصح ويحذف الياء والواو ...

Binding note

Later limp covering of unlined brown leather. Cross-hatched blind tooling across covers.

Language note

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish;

Script

Fārisī.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-16b: al-ʻAwāmil fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī. On the hundred grammatical regents.
• 2. fol. 17a-23b: [Paradigms of the verb naṣara with Turkish explanatory notes].
• 3. fol. 24a-24b: [Inscriptions] Calligraphy, ownership signatures and other inscriptions.
• 4. fol. 25a-58a: [Grammatical work]. A fragmentary work on grammar. Incomplete at the beginning.

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Provenance

Ownership signatures: Mullā Ḥusayn dated [1]117, Khayr al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās (fol. 16b); Walī al-Dīn Khwājah Aḥmad Afandīʹzādah (fol. 24a); Mutaqarr? Bik (fol. 24b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2124.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422389

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