Item Summary

Collection of fragmentary texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
موصل الطلاب الى قواعد الاعراب ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb ilá Qawāʻid al-iʻrāb ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 383L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgb19fk16c
Publisher
[17th-18th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
178 leaves : paper ; 202 x 145 (115-168 x 70-110) mm bound to 208 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-20b: Muwaṣṣil al-ṭullāb ilá Qawāʼid al-iʻrāb / Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Azʹharī.
2. fol. 21a-26b: [Miscellaneous leaves]
3. fol. 27a-32b: [Treatise on ritual purity]
4. fol. 33a-34b: [Treatise on dhamm al-ḥayāh al-dunyā]
5. fol. 35a-38b: [Treatise on ritual purity and prayer]
6. fol. 39a-40b, 45a-46b, 52a-53b, 55a-91b: [Treatise on doctrines]. Topics covered include prayer, pilgrimage, commerce, testimony, fasting, thieving, waqf, etc. Folios may not all come from a single manuscript.
7. fol. 41a-42b: [Treatise on ritual purity]
8. fol. 43a-44b: [Treatise on kayfīyat dhikr and closeness to God]
9. fol. 47a-47b, 54a-54b: [Treatise on maʻrifat al-ḥaqq]
10. fol. 48a-51b: [Treatise on ritual purity]
11. fol. 92a-93b: [Treatise on prayer]
12. fol. 94-97, 110, 114-132: [Sermons]. From several manuscripts.
13. fol. 98a-101b and 102a-107b: [Treatises on ritual purity]
14. fol. 108a-109b: [Saʼala Mūsa min rabbih]
15. fol. 111a-113b, 133a-140b and 148: [Miscellaneous leaves] On prayer and other topics.
16. fol. 141-145, 146-147, 149-152, 153-159, 163-164, 165-171, 176-177: [Treatises on inflection and grammar]. From several manuscripts.
17. fol. 160a-161b: [Treatise on logic]
18. fol. 162a-162b: [Sharḥ Ibn ʻAqīl ʻalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik]
19. fol. 172-174b: [Treatise on miracles of the Prophet]
20. fol. 175a-175b: [Treatise on miracles of the Prophet]
21. fol. 178a-178b: [Treatise on grammar]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from preface of first work (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. Label on upper cover: "KE 284".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 178 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13-23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; folios 1-20 tinted red ; watermarks (fol. 1-20: roman-alphabet cursive initials "GC?"; fol. 23: cross?; fol. 27-32: unidentified; fol. 34: stars; fol. 35-38: three crescents; fol. 42: coat-of-arms, roman-alphabet lettering "Dom...o"; fol. 43-44: three crescents; fol. 45-46: countermark roman-alphabet initials; fol. 47: three crescents; fol. 48-51: coat-of-arms; fol. 67: countermark roman-alphabet initials; fol. 72-73: unidentified; fol. 84-87: three crescents; fol. 92-96: three crescents; fol. 98-101: circular; fol. 102-107: three crescents; fol. 109: [crown]-star-crescent; fol. 110: three crescents; fol. 111-112: unidentified with roman-alphabet lettering; fol. 114-122: three crescents; fol. 150-151: crown with roman-alphabet lettering "Casa ..."; fol. 154: roman-alphabet letter "A"; fol. 156: elephant; fol. 172: unidentified; fol. 173; three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in black leather and dark paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Iʻrāb ʻan qawāʻid al-iʻrāb
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Inflection
Islam—Doctrines
Islam—Rituals
Logic
Muḥammad Prophet -632—Miracles
Purity, Ritual—Islam
Sermons, Arabic
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Watermarks
Sermons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
472

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ee67d659-610b-4ca8-919a-e0df51a8b8ec/manifest