Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Pronunciation [Browse]
• Islam—Doctrines [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 361L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

Collection of fragmentary texts on grammar and other topics

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title from title page of first work (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. All texts are incomplete.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 83 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 9-21 lines per page in one or two columns.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, some staining and damage to edges.
• Incipit: [الاجوبة الذكية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله رب العالمين ... وبعد فقد وقع السوال عن جمع من حديث -- [10أ] ... حين لقيها الساكن؟ الي الاصل وقد اختلف فيها قوم فقال بعضهم حرفان ... -- [21أ] ...يكون تعلقه من جهه المعني فقط دون شي من تعلقات الاعراب ... -- [61أ] ... تقول ياذ...غد في يوم الاحد واسع الي الخير ... -- [Poem] ... بان دا فيما روي دو الطلب * باللفظ لا ما وضعوا فى الكلمة -- [75أ] ... الي اطهار حركة اليامن اسم ال؟ قوص في حل رفعه او جره بالكسر ... -- [78أ] ... له واما الثانى والمعرف بالام فلا من المطابقة والذي بمن مفرد مذكر لا غير ...

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped design across entire cover. Endbands. Covers cut down and re-used with new spine and edges.

Language note

Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-9b: al-Ajwibah al-dhakīyah an taʼakhkhur al-ʻamal wa-taqaddum al-nīyah. Probably by a student of Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī. Title also given as al-Ajwibah al-zakīyah.
• 2. fol. 10a-20b?: [Treatise on Arabic philology]
• 3. fol. 21a?-60b: [Treatise on Arabic grammar]
• 4. fol. 61a-68b: [Treatise on Arabic grammar]
• 5. fol. 69a-74b: [Poem]
• 6. fol. 75a-77b: [Treatise on Arabic pronunciation]
• 7. fol. 78a-83b: [Treatise on Arabic grammar]

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ajwibah al-zakīyah ʻan taʼakhkhur al-ʻamal wa-taqaddum al-nīyah
• اجوبة الزكية عن تأخر العمل وتقدم النية

OCLC

858919379

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