Item Summary

A commnetary on al-Muqaddimah al-naḥwīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah, a work on grammar by ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Shaʻrānī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب شرح المقدمة الشعرانية في علم العربية / لفهامة العصر ونادرة الدهر مولانا الشيخ احمد الغنيمي الانصاري ...
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Muqaddimah al-Shaʻrānīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah / li-fahhāmat al-ʻaṣr wa-nādirat al-dahr Mawlānā al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ghunaymī al-Anṣārī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 385H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dccr56nb43f
Publisher
[1647]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1647
Extent
401 leaves : paper ; 200 x 152 (130 x 80) mm bound to 205 x 160 mm
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 474
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 457
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A short inscription and a signature (ownership statement?) in the name of ʻAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Barrī al-Ḥanafī, accompanied by a stamp and dated 1101 (1689-90), on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 388 + (3) + (9) ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Most of the ms. is written in a casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red, but fol. 1-161 are in a different hand in medium small nastaʻlīq and on different (glazed European) paper (a later replacement?).
Origin: Copied from the original in the author's hand and completed on the 29th of Ṣafar 1057 (1647) -- colophon (fol. 388b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ومنه الامداد انه جزاد كريم الحمد لله الذي نحت اليه بالضماير الخالصة ... وبعد فيقول العبد الضعيف احمد ابن محمد الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجي ... فقد سالني من لا تسعني مخالفته.
Explicit: قاله وكثير على عجل ووجل اضعف عباد الله البارى احمد بن الغنيمي الانصاري الخزرجى الانصارى.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather over pasteboard. Blind fillets around borders of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in yellow paper. Lining to the fore edge flap in yellow paper with a red pattern. Fore edge flap repaired in red leather. The ms. is disbound and loose inside the covers. Spine completely disintegrated and remains only partially.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
813

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/50d1451e-c6bd-4510-8747-e0cc09b58101/manifest