Item Summary

A compendium of grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب مراح الارواح.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 81L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgf06gf768
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
29 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (135-145 x 85) mm bound to 210 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Seal impression: al-Sayyid Najm (fol. 1b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 425.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "343 KE". Inscriptions (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 29 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in black ; watermarks (coat-of-arms with roman-alphabet letting "B ... cardo") ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال المفتقر الى الله الودود احمد ابن على ابن مسعود غفر الله له ... اعلم ان الصرف ام العلوم والنحو البوها ...
Colophon: تم الكتاب
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) limp binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled edging. Blue paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
66

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ea941847-dcd9-498d-866f-7d8140966b0e/manifest