Item Summary

The famous fifty ʻʻassembliesʼʼ of al-Zamakhsharī, otherwise known as al-Naṣāʼiḥ al-kibār.

Descriptive Information

Title
مقامات ابو القسم محمود بن عمر الزمخشري.
Transliterated Title
Maqāmāt Abū al-Qạsim Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 135H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dz011071g
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1733
Extent
50 leaves : paper ; 165 x 103 (110 x 62) mm. bound to 174 x 110 mm.
Provenance
After colophon is a seal bearing the name "Sayyid Muḥammad..." with a date. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 8749.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 348³, 379.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 347.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 201.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 50 + i ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-5 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS is rare ; MS in fair condition, staining across top of entire text.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday 16 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1145 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Laṭīf al-Ḥanbalī (fol. 48b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تمت المقامات للزمخشري ليلة السبت ليلة ستة عشر من شهر ذي القعدة سنة خمس واربعين وماية وألف على يد العبد الضعيف محمد بن عبداللطيف الحنبلي غفر الله تعالى له ولوالديه ولمشايخه وللمسلمين اجميعن. ام
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب انعمت فزد. واحمده على ما ادرج لي من آلائه
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and and brown spotted paper. Pastedowns and flyleaves in brown paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
112

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/81266387-3d01-4e9d-9176-8eddcb4e08c3/manifest