Item Summary

Commentary on al-Misbāḥ fī al-naḥw, a treatise on grammar by al-Muṭarrizī (d. 610/1213).

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب ضوء
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Ḍawʼ
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 314H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcth83m862r
Publisher
968 [1560 or 1561]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1560
Format
Manuscript
Extent
116 leaves : paper ; 201 x 142 (135 x 98) mm. bound to 201 x 148 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 341.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 116 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor in circle with star on top, countermark in roman-alphabet letters "IB"[?]) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 13-17 lines per page.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On the title page occur two verses of poetry in praise of the work, several seal impressions and other writing. Immediately after colophon and on page following occur some grammatical notes in Arabic and Turkish and a tradition.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied 968 (fol. 116a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Explicit: وقد زقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة ... تاريخ سنة 968
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قول اما بعد حمد الله فرى الانعام اما كلمة فيها معنى الشرط فلذلك كانت الفاء لازمة لها
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper. Front pastedown and flap lined with re-used MS pages.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
246

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/960bfdfa-9aaf-4b8e-98bd-475ad876e6d6/manifest