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كتاب حسن الصنيع في علم المعانى والبيان والبديع / لجامعه محمد البسيوني البيبانى.
Kitāb Ḥusn al-ṣanīʻ fī ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-al-badīʻ / li-jāmʻihi Muḥammad al-Basyūnī al-Baybānī.
1800-1899
A treatise on rhetoric and allied sciences.
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- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 103L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on rhetoric and allied sciences.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب حسن الصنيع في علم المعانى والبيان والبديع / لجامعه محمد البسيوني البيبانى.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Ḥusn al-ṣanīʻ fī ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān wa-al-badīʻ / li-jāmʻihi Muḥammad al-Basyūnī al-Baybānī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 103L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5t34sx626
- Publisher
- [19th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1800-1899
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 100 leaves : paper ; 252 x 174 (165 x 91) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 576.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal notes and glosses. Statement (study certificate?) dated 17 Rajab 1300[?] stamped with the seals of Ḥasan Murtaḍá, Maḥmūd al-ʻĀlam, Muḥammad Ḥusayn, Ḥasan al-Ṭawīl, Muḥammad al-Basyūnī, and Ḥamzah Fatḥ Allāh (fol. 100a).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 100 ; quires signed: 1-10 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet initials "AMC"; double-headed eagle; shield with a face-in-the-moon; roman-alphabet lettering "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone" and "Val[?] ... Ceneda") ; MS in good condition. Probably unique.
- Origin: Probably from the latter half of the XlXth century.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي ابان بديع صنعه عن کمال معاني صفاته ابلغ بيان ... وبعد فلا شبهة في ان نوع الانسان اشرف انواع الحيوان وما كان انسانا الا بجوهر عقله وقوته الناطقه ...
- Colophon: ختم الله لنا بالحسنى ويسر لنا الفوز بالذخر الاسنى بحرمة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وشرف وکرم ومجد وعظم واله الطاهرين وصحبه الکاملين
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 204
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1d40a031-6c7b-450f-95ea-7be8a60e285c/manifest