Item Summary

A treatise on rhetoric.

Descriptive Information

Title
[المنقحات المشروحة].
Transliterated Title
[al-Munaqqaḥāt al-mashrūḥah]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 435H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0c483v851
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
66 leaves : paper ; 200 x 140 (140 x 60) mm. bound to 198 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 563.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 198.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses in red and black ink. Notes and Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on folios before the text.
Collation: Paper ; fol. ix + 66 + xii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red on first 28 folios.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (unnumbered folios at beginning: circles with roman-alphabet letters "P, GAA", and a cross topped by a crown, countermark "FB N" with clover; text folios: crown-star-crescent, countermark roman-alphabet letters "AO" with clover, three crescents; end leaves: countermark) ; MS is in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لمن جعل علم البلاغة من المعاني والبيان وسيلة الى فهم لطائف القرآن
Colophon: الحمد لله على الاتمام ثم الصلوة والسلام على افضل الانام وعلى آله الکرام. تم
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Orange paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
164

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/6717de6a-01ac-4ad1-954b-878370e0d3bf/manifest