Item Summary

Three grammatical texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
العوامل في النحو ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
al-ʻAwāmil fī al-naḥw ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1170H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcn009wf03w
Publisher
[18th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
59 leaves : paper ; 182-205 x 120-125 (120-130 x 56-75) mm bound to 228 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Mullā Ḥusayn dated [1]117, Khayr al-Dīn ibn ʻAbbās (fol. 16b); Walī al-Dīn Khwājah Aḥmad Afandīʹzādah (fol. 24a); Mutaqarr? Bik (fol. 24b). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2124.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-16b: al-ʻAwāmil fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jurjānī. On the hundred grammatical regents.
2. fol. 17a-23b: [Paradigms of the verb naṣara with Turkish explanatory notes].
3. fol. 24a-24b: [Inscriptions] Calligraphy, ownership signatures and other inscriptions.
4. fol. 25a-58a: [Grammatical work]. A fragmentary work on grammar. Incomplete at the beginning.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from preface of first work (fol. 1b).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 59 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 6-13 lines per page ; partially frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in Fārisī and general scripts ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-16: roman-alphabet initials with trefoil; fol. 25-59: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in fair condition.
Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece in red, black and blue (fol. 1b).
Origin: [Paradigms] Copied in 1235 (fol. 23b)
Colophon: [العوامل] تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب م م م -- [Paradigms] تمت التابعون الله الملك الوهاب سنة 1235 اللهم صلى على سيدنا محمد وال محمد ... -- [Grammatical work] واما الحروف فلم يكتب منها بالياء غير بلي والي وعلي وحتي
Incipit: [العوامل] بسم الله الرحمن نالرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصاوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله اجمعين وبعد فان العوامل في النحو علي ما الفه الشيخ الامام عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن الجرجاني ... -- [Paradigms] مثال اسم القاعل ... مثال اسم المفعول ... -- [Grammatical work] ... بخلاف تغلبي علي الافصح ويحذف الياء والواو ...
Binding Note
Later limp covering of unlined brown leather. Cross-hatched blind tooling across covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Autographs
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
128

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0b08a9b7-dcf0-4c17-ab3f-f0ac95b67161/manifest