Item Summary

A commentary on al-ʻAwāmil al-jadīdah of Bīr ʻAlī, known as Bīrkilī, which is a treatise on the grammatical regents.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شرح عوامل جديد / احمد عصمة.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Sharḥ ʻAwāmil jadīd / Aḥmad ʻIṣmat.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 390H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcjh3443735
Publisher
1127 [1715]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1715
Extent
30 leaves : paper ; 207 x 145 (160 x 66) mm. bound to 207 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ismāʻīl dated 1129, Mūsá Afandnīk? dated 1290
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 464.
Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 178.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from heading (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes and glosses. Obscured signatures and seal impressions on folio before title page. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms).
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters) ; MS in good condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece with a red semi-circle outlined with red and black lines.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1127 (fol. 30a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل العالمين العاملين فائزين
Colophon: تمت تاريخ سنة 1127
Binding Note
Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
73

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2d444ccc-72c6-49c9-bf9a-3450097f128c/manifest