Item Summary

Three linguistic treatises followed by miscellaneous fragments.

Descriptive Information

Title
توجيه البسملة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Tawjīh al-basmalah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 398H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc76537b819
Publisher
[17uu-1900]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1700-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
59 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 215-227 x 160 (140-148 x 65-85) mm. bound to 224 x 162 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Muḥammad ʻĀrif Afandī al-shahīr bi-Ṭūrʹshaykhīʹzādah[?] (fol. 1a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 477, 480, 500.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 200/1.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 143.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7141/2.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 359/60.
Vollers, Katalog der Islamischen, Christlich-Orientalischen, Judischen und Samaritanischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig, 485, 883xv.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 679³.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 271.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1253.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-5b: Tawjīh al-basmalah. A linguistic commentary on the basmalah.
2. fol. 11b-20b: Masālik al-durrīyah fī qawāʻid al-Fārisīyah. A preface to the principles of the Persian language. Incomplete at the end.
3. fol. 21a: [Fragment of Kitāb ʻArūḍ, etc.]
4. fol. 21b-28a: Kitāb ʻArūḍ. A compendium of prosody including a supplement of metrical measures (fol. 26b-28a). With diagrams.
5. fol. 29b-32b: [On inheritance] In Persian. With tables.
6. fol. 33a: [Biographical fragment on Shābūr ibn Hurmuz]
7/ fol. 33b: Ḥabb sulṭānī. A lIst of spices.
8. fol. 35b-37b: Qaṣīdah Tarjīʻīyah. Better known as al-Qaṣīdah al-Ṭanṭarānīyah in praise of the great vizier of the Saljūqs, Niẓām al-Mulk.
9. fol. 38b-39b: [Miscellaneous fragments]
10. fol. 40a-42b: [Fragments of a biographical dictionary]
11. fol. 43b-50b: Fī aḥwāl al-ḥurūf al-hijāyah wa-al-ḥarakāt al-ʻArabīyah. An incomplete work on the Arabic alphabet and vowel signs with interlinear Greek translation.
12. fol. 51a-58b: [Treatise on Arabic calligraphy] A fragment of a Turkish work on the art of Arabic calligraphy. With illustrations.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 5b).
Marginal and interlineal notes and glosses. On fol. 1a are traces of two erased titles which read Sharḥ ʻAwāmil jadīd and Tuḥfat al-ikhwān together with the titles Risālat Basmahʹlah and Risālat Marghūbah fī ʻilm al-karrah. Some texts have illustrations.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 59 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13-19 lines per page.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; folio size varies ; watermarks (grapes? (fol. 2); small crown (fol. 9); coat-of-arms, roman-alphabet letters "DV" (fol. 11-20); three hats (fol. 24-28; crown, roman-alphabet lettering (fol. 51-58)) ; MS in good condition except fol. 51-58 have water staining.
Origin: [Tawjīh al-basmalah] According to colophon copied Rabīʻ I 1197 (fol. 5b)
Incipit: [توجيه البسملة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يمکن الکلام فيه من جهات الفنون الاثني عشر اما من جهة اللغة -- [مسالك] سم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي کرمنا بالعلم والبيان وفضلنا بهما على الحيوان -- [کتاب عروض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اما بعد فقد قصدت في هذا المختصر ان اذکر علل الاعاريض -- [On inheritance] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ميتك تركه منه تعلق ايدن حقوق مرتبه در تدر تدهيز تكفين قضاء ديون
Colophon: [توجيه البسملة] قد تم توجيه البسملة المجيد الجليل بيد الاضعف الجليل الموجهة بوجوه البسملة السبحاني وهو الشهير عند الناس باق کرماني قدس سره الغفراني بحرمة ذي المعجزة البرهاني تمت 1197 ربيع الاول -- [مسالك] اعلم ان حرف ب على نوعين الاول مخفف من با بحذ... -- [کتاب عروض] تمت العروض. تمم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue and brown marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Basmalah—Early works to 1800
Persian language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Niẓām al-Mulk 1018-1092—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Early works to 1800
Calligraphy, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Arabs—Biography—Early works to 1800
Spices—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
tables (documents)
Poetry
Illustrated works
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
138

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/3f457edf-a36e-4343-866f-2041fe8d0aac/manifest