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Subject(s)

• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Jāmī, 1414-1492. Ṣarf al-lisān. [Browse]
• جامي. صرف اللسان. [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of texts on Arabic grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 43b.
• Physical description: Texts 1-3, 12 lines per page, written in naskh; texts 4-6, 8-11 lines per page, written in shikastah. Machine-made paper. Rubrication and catchwords; marginal notes in text 6. Fol. 14a-16b, 43a, 80 blank. Some foxing, light staining. In good condition.
• Origin: Text 2, 6 Jumādá I 1267 H [9 March 1851] (fol. 12a). Text 3, 14 Jumādá I 12[6]7 H [17 March 1851] (fol. 13a). Text 4, 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1269 H [12 September 1853], by Muḥammad Ḥusayn ibn Mashhadī ʻAlī Muḥammad Tājir Tabrīzī (fol. 41a). Text 6, 9 Rabīʻ I 1270 H [10 December 1853], by the same scribe (fol. 79a).
• Incipit (text 1, after intro.): النوع الاول حروف تجر الاسم فقط وهي تسعة عشر حرفا البا ومن والى وفي واللام ورب وواو رب وعن وعلى والكاف ومذ ومنذ وحتى وواو القسم وباء القسم وتاء القسم وحاشا وعدا وخلا
• Incipit (text 2, after intro.): النوع الاول حروف تجر الاسم فقط وهي تسعة عشر حرفا الباء للالصاق حقيقة نحو به داء ومجازا نحو مررت بزيد اي بمكان قريب من الزيد
• Incipit (text 3): بعد توحىد خداوند و درود مصطفى * نعت آل پاک پىغمبر رسول مجتبى * عامل اندر نحو صد باشد چنىن فرموده است * شىخ عبد القاهر جرجانى آن پىر هدا
• Incipit (text 4): صرف السان نحو ثنائه اولى ... کلمات عربى سه قسم بود * نمشان حرف و فعل و اسم بود
• Incipit (text 6): بدان ايدک الله تعالى فى الدارين که کلمات لغت عرب بر سه گونه اسم است و فعل است

Binding note

Full green leather with blind-stamped fillets and pink gold-sprinkled paper doublures.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-3a: Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ ʻAwāmil. An anonymous brief commentary on al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah of ʻAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī, in Arabic. This and the following text have the same incipit as the original work.
• 2. fol. 3a-12a: Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ ʻAwāmil. A different anonymous commentary, in Arabic.
• 3. fol. 12a-13a: Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i ʻAwāmil. Persian versification of al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah, sometimes ascribed to Jāmī (see Storey, III, 145).
• 4. fol. 17b-41a: Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Ṣarf-i Mullā / [Jāmī]. Persian metrical treatise on Arabic inflection, known as Ṣarf al-lisān (see Storey, III, 161).
• 5. fol. 42a-42b: [Notes].
• 6. fol. 43b-79a: Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Ṣarf-i Mīr / [al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī]. Persian treatise on Arabic inflection (see Storey, III, 156).

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Provenance

On fol. 13b, note dated 27 Jumādá I 1270 H [25 February 1854] by the scribe of texts 4, 6. On fol. 41b, 79b, owner's notes by the same scribe dated 1270 H.

References

Storey, C. A. Persian literature, III, 145, 156, 161

Other title(s)

• Kitāb-i Ṣarf-i Mīr
• کتاب صرف مىر
• Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil.
• شرح العوامل.
• Manẓūm-i ʻAwāmil.
• منظوم عوامل.

OCLC

809921383

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