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الضوء المنير اللايح في اعراب وتأويل الفواتح / نظم محمد بن احمد الجهمي الاشعري الشافعي.
al-Ḍawʼ al-munīr al-lāyiḥ fī iʻrāb wa-taʼwīl al-fawātiḥ / naẓm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jahmī al-Ashʻarī al-Shāfiʻī.
1792
A metrical work on the grammatical analysis and exposition of the cryptic letters which appear at the opening of several sūrahs.
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- Publisher
- Jumād[á] al-Awwal 1207 [1792 or 1793]
- People
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- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 25L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A metrical work on the grammatical analysis and exposition of the cryptic letters which appear at the opening of several sūrahs.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الضوء المنير اللايح في اعراب وتأويل الفواتح / نظم محمد بن احمد الجهمي الاشعري الشافعي.
- Transliterated Title
- al-Ḍawʼ al-munīr al-lāyiḥ fī iʻrāb wa-taʼwīl al-fawātiḥ / naẓm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Jahmī al-Ashʻarī al-Shāfiʻī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 25L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwd376820x
- Publisher
- Jumād[á] al-Awwal 1207 [1792 or 1793]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1792
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 5 leaves : paper ; 240 x 167 (180-185 x 110-130) mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1317.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Lines of verse (f. [i]b and 1a). Fāʼidah extracted from al-Jahmī (fol. 4b-5b).
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 20 lines per page in two columns.
- Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and verse separators in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copy completed Jumād al-Awwal 1207 by Ṭāhā ibn Muḥammad al-Jurbī/al-Jurmī? (fol. 4b).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله وصلى الاعلا * على الذي به افاض الفضلا ...
- Colophon: تمت المنظومة المبارکة بخط راقمها الفقىرالى الله تعالى طه بن محمد الجربي [؟] وفقه الله تعالى لما ىحب ذنبا [؟] وىرضى وذلك شهر جماد الاول سنة 1207
- Binding Note
- Unbound.
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- File Count
- 16
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/46470fed-2ba8-401c-b134-c42132cd5f6e/manifest