Details

Subject(s)

• Muʻallaqāt [Browse]
• Jārbardī, Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan -1345—Mughnī fī al-naḥw [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—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. 1L. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Imruʼ al-Qays, 497-545. Muʻallaqah. [Browse]
• امرؤ القيس، 497-545. معلقة. [Browse]
• Ṭarafah ibn al-ʻAbd. Muʻallaqah. [Browse]
• طرفة بن العبد. معلقة. [Browse]
• Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmá. Muʻallaqah. [Browse]
• زهير بن ابي سلمى. معلقة. [Browse]
• Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn. Sharḥ al-Mughnī fī al-naḥw. [Browse]
• حسيني، عبد الله بن فخر الدين. شرح المغني في النحو. [Browse]

Summary note

A collection containing three muʻallaqāt with commentary, and a commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Notes and fawāʼid before, after, and between the texts (fol. 1a, 17b-18a, and 120a-121b). Inscriptions on upper pastedown.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 122 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 7-27 lines per page ; a few leaves frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (three crescents; circle topped with a crown; roman-alphabet lettering; cross on a hill) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: [Commentary on al-Mughnī] Copy completed Ṣafar 1137 (fol. 119b).
• Colophon: [Three muʻallaqāt]رعوا ظمأهم حتى إذا تم أوردوا * غمارا تفرى بالسلاح وبالدم ... -- [Commentary on al-Mughnī] وذلك يوم الثلاثا بعد العصر فى شهر صفر الخير سنة الف وماية وسبعة وثلثين والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين م م
• Incipit: [Three muʻallaqāt] قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيب ومنزل ... -- [Commentary on al-Mughnī] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله الذى خصنا بنبي خصنه بجوامع الكلم ... اما بعد فيقول لعبد ... الحسينى لما رايت كتاب المغنى الذى هو من مؤلفات من كان فريدا فى دهره ...

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed floral design.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-16b: [Three muʻallaqāt]. The text of three of the muʻallaqāt, namely those of Imruʼ al-Qays, Ṭarafah and Zuhayr with interlinear notes and commentary. The last is incomplete.
• 2. fol. 18b-119b: [Commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw]. Commentary by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī on a work on syntax by al-Jārabardī.

Provenance

Ownership signature and seal impression of Sulaymān Fa?nīʹzādah al-Ḥusaynī dated 1225 (fol. 18a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2135.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425960

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