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Item Summary
Commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- [ضوء المصباح].
- Transliterated Title
- [Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ].
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 88L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd791sv20f
- Publisher
- [16th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1500-1599
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 30 leaves : paper ; 180 x130 (130 x 73) mm bound to 173 x 130 mm.
- Provenance
- Signature: Muḥammad al-madʻū bi-Masrʹzādah[?] with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 344.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on upper and lower pastedowns. Label on upper cover.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 16 lines per page.
- Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; some vowel signs ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال المصنف ؟ اما بعد حمد لله اما كلمة متضمنه لمعنى الشرط فلذلك لزم دخول الفاء فى جوابها لزوما ...
- Colophon: تم الحمد لله على ما انعم على الانام وعلى نبيه افضل الصلوة والسلام
- Binding Note
- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and green and blue marbled paper. Gold-tooling on spine.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 68
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/95b2fcb7-82b6-43b9-b1ef-6be7dc90e2f7/manifest

















