Descriptive Information

Title

[Collection of Arabic texts].

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 27B

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sx61dp89g

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1100-1199

Format

Manuscript

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Copied A.H. 577 [A.D. 1181].

Fols. 57; 16.4 x 12.3 cm.; written surface 12.5 x 9 cm.; 12-13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi.

A collection containing:

1. al-Tanqīb ʻalá mā fī al-Maqāmāt min al-gharīb, a glossary of the uncommon words in the Maqāmāt (assemblies) of al-ḥarīrī, A.H. 516 [A.D. 11 22/3] by Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn Ẓafar al-Ṣaqalī, A.H. 565 [A.D. 1170]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 60.

Copy incomplete at beginning.

2. A fragment of a commentary on the Maqāmāt of al-ḥarīrī explaining the difficult terms, by Abū al-Barakāt ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUbayd Allāh ibn al-Anbārī, 577 [A.D. 1181]. See ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 62.

Copy incomplete at end. Name of author inserted by a later hand. MS in good condition; modern Arabic cloth binding. One of the oldest in the collection.

Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.

Discovery Information

Subject

Ḥarīrī 1054-1122—Maqāmāt

Arabic prose literature—Glossaries, vocabularies etc—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count

64

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/42d16324-3228-428d-9102-c7c2a72a659b/manifest

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