Item Summary

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on the preface to al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.

Descriptive Information

Title
ديباجة شرح مصباح عوامل
Transliterated Title
Dībājat sharḥ Miṣbāḥ ʻawāmil
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 319H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnc580x952
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(3), 17, (2) leaves : paper ; 173 x 122 (129 x 71) mm. bound to 173 x 123 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures include: Muṣṭafá ibn Rajab with his seal impression, Ḥusayn al-Qāḍī, seal impression of ʻInāyat Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá, al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim signature and seal impression with the date "65", ʻAbd al-Qādir Janbīdah, seal impression of Maḥmūd ibn Shāh Qulī, ʻUthmān Chalabī ibn Mullā Wasʻatī Afandī ibn Mudarris.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 354.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 584.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 486ˡˡ.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 934ˡˡˡ, 935ˡ.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6545/6ˡ.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Signatures, seal impressions and short extracts on folios before and after the text.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 17 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red folios 1-8.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some folios are tinted or marbled ; watermarks (two crescents, circular design) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين. الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على رسوله محمد واله اجمعين. فهذه اوراق لاعراب ديباجة المصباح
Ending: وهو الباب الخامس بالاستقراء لا بالعقل لان العقل يجوز ان يکون شيئاً آخر غير الخامس تمت بعون الله الملك المنان
Binding Note
Later? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and blue marbled paper. Violet paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Autographs
Watermarks
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
52

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/caa2d706-d644-4182-956b-eb58ed36c8f0/manifest