Item Summary

Several treatises on Arabic grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
امثلة ... [الخٍ]
Transliterated Title
Amthilah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 370H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgh93h893b
Publisher
27 Rajab 1250 [November 29, 1834]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1834
Format
Manuscript
Extent
leaves : paper ; 210 x 154 (150-170 x 92-120) mm bound to 214 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 493, 488, 303, 397.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents, notes]
2. fol. 1b-21a: Amthilah. Grammatical notes continue after the colophon on two additional folios.
3. fol. 21b-31b: Bināʼ. After colophon are two folios which contain paradigms for al-ṣaḥīḥ, al-muḍāʻaf, al-mithāl, al-ajwaf and al-nāqiṣ.
4. fol. 32a-32b: [blank]
5. fol. 33a-48b: Maqṣūd. Between folios 7 and 8 is inserted a slip of paper bearing a fāʼidah in Turkish.
6. fol. 44b-48b: Sharḥ al-Amthilah.
7. fol. 49a-56a: [blank]
7. fol. 56b-63b: [Turkish commentary on Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī]
8. fol. 64a-67a: [blank]
9. fol. 67b-89b: Hādhā Kitāb ʻIzzī fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf. Immediately after colophon occur seven lines from the opening of the commentary on al-Amthilah.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from heading (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlineal notes, marginal summaries. Before title page there are six blank folios.
Collation: Paper ; fol. vi + 99 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (On folios between works: bird, roman-alphabet letters "F co V se"; coat-of-arms with a lion; bird with roman-alphabet letters "G F A". On written folios: three crescents; shield with a face-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Maqṣūd] Copied 27 Rajab 1250 (fol. 44a) -- [Sharḥ al-Amthilah] Copied 1250 by Aḥmad al-Diyār al-Bakrī. (fol. 48b).
Incipit: [امثلة] ثلاثى مجرد معلومك ... نصر ينصر نصرا فهو ناصر -- [بناء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وصلى الله على مصطفاه وعلى اله وصحبه واهل بيته اعلم ان ابواب التصريف خمسة وثلاثون بابا -- [مقصود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الوهاب للمؤمنين ... اما بعد فان العربية وسيلة الى العلوم الشرعية -- [شرح اللمثلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله الذى زين اذهان المبتدئين بالمثال ... وبعد فجمعت هذه الاوراق للمبتدئيين -- [عزى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تقتى اعلم ان التصريف في اللغة التغير وفي الصناعة تحويل الاصل الواحد
Colophon: [امثلة] تمت وبالخير تمت الهنا اجعل اعز... -- [بناء] وناقص ومحموز واجوف -- [مقصود] قد استراح قلم احمد الديار البكرى سابع عشرين رجب من سنة خمسين بعد الماتين والالاف ... -- [شرح اللمثلة] تم كاتب شرح الامثلة شكر الله ... قلم احمد الديار بكرى ... 1250 -- [عزى] الحمد لله على كل مثال
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and gray and red marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns and flyleaves.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm active 1257—Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
224

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/81f1f1db-0198-41cb-806b-4f03536121e5/manifest