Item Summary

A collection containing three muʻallaqāt with commentary, and a commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Three muʻallaqāt] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcg445cs071
Publisher
1137 [1724]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1724
Format
Manuscript
Extent
122 leaves : paper ; 221 x 160 (145-165 x 90-100) mm bound to 221 x 168 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature and seal impression of Sulaymān Fa?nīʹzādah al-Ḥusaynī dated 1225 (fol. 18a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2135.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-16b: [Three muʻallaqāt]. The text of three of the muʻallaqāt, namely those of Imruʼ al-Qays, Ṭarafah and Zuhayr with interlinear notes and commentary. The last is incomplete.
2. fol. 18b-119b: [Commentary on al-Mughnī fī ʻilm al-naḥw]. Commentary by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Fakhr al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī on a work on syntax by al-Jārabardī.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Notes and fawāʼid before, after, and between the texts (fol. 1a, 17b-18a, and 120a-121b). Inscriptions on upper pastedown.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 122 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 7-27 lines per page ; a few leaves frame-ruled in red.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (three crescents; circle topped with a crown; roman-alphabet lettering; cross on a hill) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: [Commentary on al-Mughnī] Copy completed Ṣafar 1137 (fol. 119b).
Colophon: [Three muʻallaqāt]رعوا ظمأهم حتى إذا تم أوردوا * غمارا تفرى بالسلاح وبالدم ... -- [Commentary on al-Mughnī] وذلك يوم الثلاثا بعد العصر فى شهر صفر الخير سنة الف وماية وسبعة وثلثين والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين م م
Incipit: [Three muʻallaqāt] قفا نبك من ذكرى حبيب ومنزل ... -- [Commentary on al-Mughnī] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي الحمد لله الذى خصنا بنبي خصنه بجوامع الكلم ... اما بعد فيقول لعبد ... الحسينى لما رايت كتاب المغنى الذى هو من مؤلفات من كان فريدا فى دهره ...
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue paper with block-pressed floral design.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muʻallaqāt
Jārbardī, Fakhr al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan -1345—Mughnī fī al-naḥw
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
258

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/5e2d24a5-e218-4a3d-91a5-f178b92d9533/manifest