Item Summary

Commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d. 610/1213).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الضوء.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ḍawʼ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 313H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2z10x150x
Publisher
[1431]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1431
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 128, i leaves : paper ; 263 x 178 (152 x 100) mm. bound to 265 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 340
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 128b).
Important marginal and interlinear annotations. Several inscriptions, including ownership statements with seal impressions and verses of poetry praising this book on fol. 1a. Inscription "45" in Western numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover (corresponds to Brill's list, see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 313).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 128 + i ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks.
Origin: Copy completed on a Thursday in the first decade of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 834 [Aug. 1431] (colophon, fol. 128b).
Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء لازمة لها قال سبويه.
Explicit: لان اهانة المولى من لوازم ضرب الغلام وهذا باب للاطناب(؟) فيه --ال لكن يقضى الى الملال فاقتصرت على هذا القدر فليس الري عنِ السثاقِ(؟) تم.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather and paper (different on each cover) over paper pasteboards. Paper with block-pressed design on fore-edge flap. Red dyed paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Endbands.

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
Headbands
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
272

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/90aea770-b1db-48e2-92b3-8ec329ee1d82/manifest