Item Summary

A commentary on al-Muqaddimah al-Ājurrūmīyah. The commentary is a collection of the opinions of Nūr al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Burhān al-Dīn al-Ḥalabī 975-1044 [1567/8-1635].

Descriptive Information

Title
اللمعة السنية في حل الفاظ الاجرومية.
Transliterated Title
al-Lumʻah al-sanīyah fī ḥall alfāẓ al-Ājurrūmīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 362H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfn107835x
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1631
Extent
(1), 49, (2) leaves : paper ; 202 x 153 (130 x 80) mm. bound to 197 x 149 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements: Isḥaq Janānīʹzādah, Ibn Janānīʹzādah[?], and seal impression of al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim (fol. 1a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 436.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 91.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6682/3.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 210.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. The title page and two folios prior have a variant title, calligraphy, and a list of bābs. After the colophon occur 5 lines of poetry and two statements, one about an eclipse in Constantinople 1071 [1661] and the other about an uprising in Aleppo 1184 [1770].
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 49 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition but stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1041 by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Zabādī (fol. 49a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم حمدا لك اللهم على ما الهمت من دقائق العربية
Colophon: تم الکتاب في اواخر شوال سنة 1041 تکاملت نعم السرور لصاحبه وعفي [عفا] الاله بفضله وبجوده عن کاتبه الفقير محمد بن محمد الزبادي
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather over paper. Blind-stamped mandorla, outlined and decorated with gold paint. Gold painted edging. Blue paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
112

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/00ecde73-d4e9-47c1-bcf7-f88fa1f274de/manifest