Item Summary

A commentary on Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb.

Descriptive Information

Title
تحفة الغريب في الكلام على مغني اللبيب / لدمامني.
Transliterated Title
Tuḥfat al-gharīb fī al-kalām ʻalá Mughnī al-labīb / li-Damāminī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 368Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcm900p632q
Publisher
11 Rajab 1009 [January 16, 1601]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1601
Format
Manuscript
Extent
345 leaves : paper ; 275 x 162 (185 x 88) mm bound to 275 x 175 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm al-madʻūw bi-al-Ḥijāzī?, Muṣṭafá al-Ḥijāzī?, Muḥammad Amīn ʻĀṭif, Mūsá al-Najdī (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 447.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 657.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 29, 75/6.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6727/8.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 967.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. In margins of folios 2b and 3a is a statement that Ibn Hishām had written another work on the same subject at Makkah 749 [1348]; on his return to Egypt it was lost and therefore on his second sojourn in Makkah 756 [1353] he wrote the present ground-work. Title also appears on spine label.
Collation: Paper ; (2) + 345 + (1) ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpapers only: grapes, crown and roman-alphabet lettering "...aridon" and "langu..") ; MS in good condition, but binding is loose and several folios are mended.
Decoration: Opening page has elaborate illuminated headpiece of blue, gold, orange, black and yellow with frame-ruling in gold, black and red, gold headings and gold dots (fol. 1b).
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 11 Rajab 1009 by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-ʻĪdī (fol. 345a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذي منح من لسان العرب الايادي الحسنة وجعله کنز الفصاحة فهو مغني اللبيب عن ما سواه من الالسنة ... اما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير الي المولي الغني محمد بن ابي بكر المخزومي الدماميني عامله الله تعالي بلطفه ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته يوم الثلاثاء المبارك الحادي عشر من شهر رجب الفرد من شهور سنة تسع بعد الالف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازکى السلام على يد العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى محمد بن الحاج علي العيدي غفر الله له ولوالديه ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة والمسلمين [وللمسلمين] آمين آمين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

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Subject
Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb
Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
706

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/05eec26f-1ba8-41ca-9d03-fca5b5c385f0/manifest