Item Summary

The text of, and commentary on, the famous ode of Ibn Durayd as related by Rabīʻah ibn Muḥammad al-Maʻmarī.

Descriptive Information

Title
[المقصورة الدريدية وشرحها].
Transliterated Title
[al-Maqṣūrah al-Duraydīyah wa-sharḥuhā].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 15H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcrr172854v
Publisher
684 [1285 or 1286]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1285
Format
Manuscript
Extent
41 leaves : paper ; 182 x 129 (145 x 95) mm bound to 184 x 129 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 20.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7546.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes in red and black in different hands. On title page are eight verses of poetry. After the colophon are several quotations from the Qurʼān and a few wisdom verses. On the page following are ten verses by Abū Nuwās and a masʼalah on inheritance. The author of this commentary was a disciple of the famous grammarian Ibn Khālawayh (317-370/929-989/1), from whom he learned the ode.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 41 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 16-18 lines per page.
Description: Text commented upon in bolder script ; some use of red ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 684 (fol. 41a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر. قال ربيعة تن محمد العمري [المعمري] قرات نسخة هذه المقصوره على الشيخ ابى عبد الله الحسين بن خالويه النحوي ...
Colophon: نجزت المقصورة بحمد الله وتوفيقه عشية الخميس سلخ المحرم سنة اربع وثمانين وستمائة
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in plain paste boards with fabric-enforced spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan 837 or 838-933—Maqṣūrah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
92

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/340695c6-d344-4444-b237-d7b2a729a668/manifest