Item Summary

The text of the grammatical work al-Hārūnīyah fī al-taṣrīf followed by a commentary which is incomplete at the end.

Descriptive Information

Title
هارونية وشرحها.
Transliterated Title
Hārūnīyah wa-Sharḥuhā.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 380H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcw0892n386
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1428
Extent
47 leaves : paper ; 183 x 136 (125 x 105) mm. bound to 181 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 440, 441.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 472.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6758.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4164.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 2a-18a: Kitāb al-Hārūnīyah fī al-taṣrīf / taṣnīf ʻUmar ibn al-Harawī.
2. fol. 18b-19b: [blank except for a few straight lines]
3. fol. 20a-47b: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Hārūnīyah fī al-taṣrīf / lil-Niksārī. Incomplete at the end.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from heading (fol. 2a).
A few marginal notes and glosses. Several lines of poetry on the title page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 47 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; line separators and other use of red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: three crescents) ; MS in good condition but several folios are mended.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Hārūnīyah] Copied Sunday 11 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 831 (fol. 18a).
Incipit: [كتاب الهارونية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي صارفنا في نعمته وعرفنا من مجده الكامل و كرمه -- [كتاب شرح الهارونية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر. الحمد لله الذي دل على وجوده الحق مشاهدة الفعل والانفعال
Ending: [كتاب الهارونية] ووفق الفراغ من كتابها نصف يوم الاحد حادى عشر شهر ذي القعده الحرام من شهور سنة احد وثلثين وثمان مايه -- [كتاب شرح الهارونية] فالاول للمرة والثانية
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Endbands.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
113

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/5c770697-7ef5-404e-8797-b21a76c380cb/manifest