Item Summary

A gloss on al-Qāmūs of al-Fīrūzābādī. The gloss is otherwise known as al-Qawl al-maʼnūs bi-taḥrīr mā fī al-Qāmūs.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية القاموس / للامام محمد بن بدر الدين القرافي المالكي.
Transliterated Title
Ḥāshiyat al-Qāmūs / lil-Imām Muḥammad ibn Badr al-Dīn al-Qarāfī al-Mālikī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 286H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcpz50h6380
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1721
Extent
196, (1) leaves : paper ; 212 x 152 (152 x 91) mm. bound to 212 x 157 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Bibliothecae Bodleianae codicum MSS orientalium, I, 1114.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 6977.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 594/5.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV p. 179.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 493.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 282.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. 196 + (1) ; catchwords ; quire count on title page ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in very good condition aside from some staining on first few leaves.
Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
Marginal notes and glosses. On folio after colophon is an autograph of an owner and kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms). Owner's signature obliterated on title page.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 17 Shawwāl 1133 by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Sawwāq al-Yashkhūnī (fol. 196b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: وتم تعليقه على يد الفقير الى رحمة مولاه الغني به عمن سواه يوسف بن احمد السواق اليشخوني يوم الجمعة قبل صلاة العصر سابع شهر شوال سنة الف وماية [وثلاثة وثلاثين على التمام والکمال والحمد لله على کل حال والحمد لله رب العالمين
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم رب يسر الحمد لله الذي زين من اراد التحلي باشرف اللغات
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Stamped and filled mandorla with pendants on covers. Small stamped and filled mandorla on flap. Blind-tooled decorative edging on covers and flap. Not currently sewn. In a case (212 x 160) of red leather and marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
410

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/ddc15ea6-c119-4a3a-b208-be07c4e4f4ad/manifest