Item Summary

Elegant copy of Zamakhsharīs grammatical work. The text is followed on fol. 229a-231b by several inscriptions and short texts, including verses of poetry in Ottoman Turkish.

Descriptive Information

Title
المفصل / للزمخشري.
Transliterated Title
al-Mufaṣṣal / lil-Zamakhsharī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 306H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc7h14b1134
Publisher
8 Shawwāl 727 [September 4, 1327]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1327
Format
Manuscript
Extent
ii, 231, ii leaves : paper ; 265 x 175 (145 x 95) mm. bound to 265 x 185 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statement in the name of Nūqādī Zade al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī ibn Aḥmad al-Nūqādī, dated 1281 H. [1864 or 5] on fol. 1a. Partly erased ownership statement on fol. 228b, stating that the manuscript was bought at the al-Sūq al-Sulṭānī in Dhū al-Ḥijjah ---? in Qusṭanṭinīyah. Acquired from Brill, Leiden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 325
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from tail of text block (later hand).
Annotations and commentaries on the margin, between the lines of the main text, and on pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. Several inscriptions and short texts, including verses of poetry, on fol. 1a. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on fol. 229a. Inscription "49" in Western numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 231 + ii ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated; overlining and other use of red; partially vocalized; wear with loss of a few words on the first leaves.
Paper: Thick cream paper, glossy, with laid lines and pulp visible.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on the eighth night of Shawwāl 727 by Burhān ibn ʻĀlam ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jaydī (fol. 228b).
Incipit: الله احمد على ان جعلنى من علماء العربية وجبلنى على الغضب للعرب والعصبية وابى لى ان انفرد عن صميم انصارهم.
Explicit: واذا كانوا ممن يحذفون مع امكان الاذغام فى يتسع ويتغن فهم مع عدم امكانه اخذف والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in burgundy leather (peeling) over paper pasteboards. Gilt painted central floral motif and outer border consisting of gilt fillets and a Greek key pattern, with a floral motif in each inner corner, on each cover. Similar border on fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings

Physical Characteristics

File Count
510

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/3e186fc8-acc6-426a-b6f7-d2ed534518cf/manifest