Descriptive Information

Title

رسالة في آداب البحث ... [الخ.]

Transliterated Title

Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth ... [etc.]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4234Y

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/6969z810s

Publisher

[1800-1899]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1800-1899

Format

Manuscript

Extent

leaves : paper ; 188 x 118 (123-140 x 58-67) mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (Yahuda Section), 3413, 3659, 5156.

Brockelmann, GAL, S II, 302 (note 1); II, 246 (3a); S II, 258.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Contents

1. fol. 1b-15a: Risālah fī ādāb al-baḥth.

2. fol. 17b-22b: al-Quṣārá fī al-taṣrīf.

3. fol. 25b-29a: Risālah fī ʻilm al-katif. Anonymous treatise on scapulimancy (divination by bones).

4. fol. 32b-36b: Hādhā daʻwat wa-al-duḥá.

5. fol. 38b-47b: [Imtiḥān min khamsat ʻasharah suʼāl]

6. fol. 48a-81b: [Ḥāshiyah fī al-ḥikmah]

Notes

Ms. composite codex.

Layout: 13-17 lines per page.

Origin: [al-Quṣārá fī al-taṣrīf] Copied 1316.

Incipit: [رسالة في اداب البحث] ىقول الفقىر ... لما کانت متون علم الآداب لم تشتمل عل تفصىل -- [القصارى في التصريف] لا اله عمّ الاه ولا اله سواه -- [رسالة في علم الكتف] اعلم ان علماء الهند وما وراء النهر وفارس اتفقوا على علم الکتف

Discovery Information

Subject

Dialectic—Early works to 1800

Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800

Scapulimancy—Islamic countries

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count

172

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/38c2ca86-ac73-4ed8-9273-e3867094fc26/manifest

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