Item Summary

Commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by the author's teacher, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Jārbardī (d. 746/1345). The text is followed on fol. 80a-86a by a short text in Persian, on grammar.

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Title
كتاب الغني في شرح المغني في علم النحو / من مصنفات محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن محمد من ذرية ... رضي الله عنه المنسوب ... الميلاني وهو قرية من قراي تبريز.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Ghanī fī sharḥ al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw / min muṣannafāt Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Muḥammad min dhuriyat [---] raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu al-mansūb [---] al-Mīlānī wa-huwa qaryah min qurāy Tabrīz.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 364H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck930c7459
Publisher
Damascus, [1442]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1442
Format
Manuscript
Extent
86 leaves : paper ; 250 x 179 (202 x 128) mm bound to 250 x 195 mm
Provenance
Ownership statement with seal on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 443.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
A few marginal annotations, particularly on the first pages. Several inscriptions, mostly quoting ḥadīth, on fol. 1a-b and 2a. Several inscriptions in Arabic and Persian on fol. 86b. Several inscriptions in Arabic and Roman script on the upper cover, including the inscription "239" in black ink, using Western numerals (corresponds to no. in Brill's list ; see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 443).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 86 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Written in medium small naskh in black ink, with larger script for "qawluh".
Copy completed in Damascus on 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 845 by ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Mawlá al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-fāḍil ---? [Hitti reads ʻAlī] ibn Rakhāḥī [Hitti reads Rukhāmī] [--] ibn al-shaykh al-rabbānī al-zāhid al-Ṣamadānī Shaykh Bābā Abī Dāʼud ibn Shaykh Muḥammad al-ANSī [Hitti reads Anasī] al-Shabistārī (colophon, fol. 79b ; two dates appear in the colophon, 2 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 845 and 846, and it is not clear to what they refer).
Explicit text 1: قال السيّد فى شرح الكبير الكافية وهو قليل اي والتنيون الغالي فى كلام الفصحاء قليل والله اعلم تم كتاب الغنى فى شرح المغنى.
Explicit text 2: رسول كفت ايشان باشند اهل معروف در ين جهان ودر ان جهان.
Incipit text 2 : غرض از علم نحو معرفت اعرابست واعراب را چهار چيز ميبايد يكي محلّ وموصوف.
Incipit text 1: الحمد لله الفاطر الحكيم القادر العليم ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف ... محمد بن عبد الرحيم بن كحكد [---] الميلاني لما لم يكن للكتاب المسمّى بالغني فى علم النحو شرح وهو من مصنفات استاذي العلامة ... احمد بن الحسن الجارپردي ... قد خطر ببالي ان اشرحَ له شرحًا كاشفًا.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns. Rebacked. Damaged. Disbound.

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Subject
Jārbardī, Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan -1345—Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
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File Count
184

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/11d50e7f-a897-422c-b970-d0ee29b6e652/manifest