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A commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ, a treatise on syntax by al-Muṭarrizī.
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- Publisher
- 963 [1555 or 1556]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 318H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ, a treatise on syntax by al-Muṭarrizī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- افتتاح على المصباح.
- Transliterated Title
- Iftitāḥ ʻalá al-Miṣbāḥ.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 318H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz316qb89h
- Publisher
- 963 [1555 or 1556]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1555
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 80 leaves : paper ; 172 x 126 (130 x 75-80) mm. bound to 172 x 131 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 350.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Marginal notes. On back of first page and folio before occur several Persian notes, a kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), and a quotation about the MS from Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 582/3. Following the colophon is a short Persian text, a few signatures and other inscriptions. Labels attached to upper cover with the title and "16".
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 80 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red on folios 1-37.
- Description: Watermarks (serpent on cross above bull's head [later flyleaf only]; anchor) ; MS in fair condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied in 963 (fol. 77a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه النستعين الحمد لله الذى انزل من السماء الفرقان
- Explicit: انتهى تحرير الافتتاح بعناية الملك الفتاح يوم الاحد من اقل الجمادين سنة 963 تم
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped square motif and blind-tooled edging. Endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 170
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bdaefaca-5992-48a9-bd66-1ec13faf2846/manifest