Item Summary

A commentary on al-Unmūdhaj by Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī followed by a commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ, a treatise on syntax by al-Muṭarrizī.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح الانموذج] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 311H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm326mc00r
Publisher
28 Ramaḍān 966-967 [July 14, 1559?-1560]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1559-1560
Format
Manuscript
Extent
110 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (150-160 x 90) mm. bound to 204 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Ownership signature: Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan ; three seal impresions on lower pastedown.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6541/2.
Browne, Supplementary hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 434 (a)
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 166; Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4023³
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 50.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 584.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 331, 352.
Vollers, Katalog der Islamischen, Christlich-Orientalischen, Judischen und Samaritanischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig, 422'.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [signatures, notes and other writing]
110a: [notes]
2. fol. 1b-59b: [Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj] / Muḥammad ibn [?] al-Ardabīlī
3. fol. 60a-61a : [sayings, notes, etc.]
3.106a-109b: [Fragmentary work on syntax]
4. fol. 61b-105b: Khulāṣat al-iʻrāb / Ḥājjī Bābā ibn Ḥājjī Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥājjī ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻUthmān al-Ṭūsawī
Notes
A few marginal notes. On the folios before the first text, between the texts, and at the end occur several verses of poetry and miscellaneous notes, sayings, signatures and other writing in Arabic and Persian. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 1b. On five folios following the colophon occurs a fragmentary work on syntax.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 110 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs ; lightly-tinted paper used sporadically in first work ; MS in good condition, a few folios mended.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Ms. composite codex.
Origin: [Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj] Colophon dated 967 (fol. 59b) -- According to note after end of 2nd work: copied Thursday 28 Ramaḍān 966 (fol. 105b).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Colophon: خاتمة الکتاب. قد وقع الفراغ من هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة في 28 شهر رمضان المبارك في يوم الخميس في وقت الضحوة الکبرى في ... رولوجق المعروف بآخر طاغي. تاريخه سنة 966
Incipit: [شرح الانموذج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى جعل العربية مفتاح البيان ... وبعد يقول القفير محمد ... الاردبيلي غفا الله عنه -- [خلاصة الاعراب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله ولي الانعام فاطر السموات والارض والانام ... فهذه حواش كتبها حاجي بابا بن حاجي ابراهيم بن حاجي عبد الكريم ين عثمان الطوسوى للمصباحي وسماها خلاصة الاعراب
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and yellow paper. Blind-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled line design running diagonally across the cover and the mandorla. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw
Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʿUmar 1075-1144—Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Stamps
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
233

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/86f23ad0-bffd-4869-bc7f-d0991339f6b0/manifest