Item Summary

A work on the meaning of words of the same letters but with different vowel signs on the first syllable.

Descriptive Information

Title
Muthallath / li-ṣāḥib al-Qāmūs.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 287H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck643bb446
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1738
Extent
42 leaves : paper ; 207 x 146 (157 x 100) mm. bound to 207 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Owner signatures: Muḥammad Hidāyah Afandī and Sayyidī ʻAlī Nadá (fol. 1a); Rustam ibn ... [?] al-Shurūlī and Aḥmad Millī Mīrʹdārādah [?] dated Ṣafar 1151 (fol. 3a)
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 374.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 284.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 42 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "BD") ; MS in very good condition.
Few marginal notes. Fol. 1b bears a table of contents.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Ms. codex.
Title from bottom edge.
Colophon: وما ذلك الالميامن سعادات من صنف له هذا الکتاب الموضوع على اسمه الشريف الکلام والحمد لله رب العالمين على وفور الانعام والصلوة والسلام على افضل الخلق واشرف الانام محمد خاتم الانبياء ومبلغ الانباء وسيد الکرام وعلى آله وصحابته الاعلام ما علم علام ولمع علام وملع غلام والحمد لله وحده والله اعلم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اشرف ما نطق به المصدع المحدث
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Gold-stamped mandorla with pendants on covers, gold-stamped motif on flap. Decorative blind-tooled edging on covers and flap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
95

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c4cdfd2e-e986-484b-a00c-d2bbdcb9e21e/manifest