Item Summary

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on an ode rhyming with mīm on the philological and linguistic differences between ḍ and ẓ. Incomplete at the beginning.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح قصيدة ميمية في الفرق بين الضاد والظاء]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ Qaṣīdah mīmīyah fī al-farq bayna al-ḍād wa-al-ẓāʼ]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 298H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqb98mr73d
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
70 leaves : paper ; 189 x 135 (157 x 113) mm. bound to 187 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 296.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
A few marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 70 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Ms. codex.
Title from Hitti, P. Garrett Coll.
Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الله ... وحسن توفيقه
Incipit: وبين الظاء الابالاطباق ولو لا الاطباق لعادت ذالاً
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers with similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qaṣīdah mīmīyah fī al-farq bayna al-ḍād wa-al-ẓāʼ
Arabic language—Pronunciation—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
151

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f9bf04b4-dede-4722-855c-c717b19f5d72/manifest