Item Summary

A commentary on Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا الكتاب شرح المراح في علم [الصرف]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā al-Kitāb Sharḥ al-Marāḥ fī ʻilm [al-ṣarf]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 82L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz890s6249
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1697
Extent
135 leaves : paper ; 207 x 150 (140 x 90) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 431.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 488.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6813.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from later title at head of text (fol. 1b).
The author of this commentary is not definitely known. Ḥājjī Khalīfah suggests Ibn Kamāl Pāshā, 940 [1553/4] as the author. Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften ascribes it to ʻAbd Allāh ibn Safar. Inscription (fol. 135a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 135 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent, roman-alphabet initial countermark with trefoil; three crescents; circles) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday in Shaʻbān 1108 by Shukrī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-ʻAbdalī (fol. 134a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال المفتقسره ... ترک المصنف داب سائر المصنفين من افتتاح کتابه بالحمد اقتداء بسيد المرسلين ...
Colophon: تمت هذه النسخة المباركة بعون الله وحسن توفيقه على يد اضعف عباد الله الفقير الحقير شكري ابن الحاجي عبد الله العبدلي في يوم الثلاثة في وقت الظهر في شهر شعبان سنة الف ومائة وثمانية من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها ... ولا تجعل قلوبنا غلاّ للذين آمنوا ربنا انك رووف رحيم. م م م
Binding Note
Dark brown leather spine only remnant of binding.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
276

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
Holding location
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