Item Summary

Two commentaries on works of grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الازهرية. وشرح المصباح في النحو.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Azʹharīyah. Wa-Sharḥ al-Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 383H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ff365904s
Publisher
[17th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1699
Format
Manuscript
Extent
117 leaves : paper ; 205 x 123 (137 x 56) mm bound to 205 x 124 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Signature of an owner ʻAṭāʼ Allāh al-Mawlawī, the copyist Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-shahīr bi-al-Maʻānī and a seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 351, 462.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-42b: Sharḥ al-Azʹharīyah. A commentary on the author's own prolegomena on grammar. On title page occurs the autograph of the copyist.
2. fol. 45a-117b: Kitāb Nūr al-miṣbāḥ. A commentary on al-Miṣbāḥ. In the introduction the author states that he composed the work 866 [1462] in Marmora during the reign of Sultan Muḥammad II, who reigned 855-886 [1451-1481]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from collective title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses.
Collation: Paper ; fol. v + 117 + vi ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; second work contains some paper tinted yellow ; watermarks (later endpapers: coat-of-arms with an animal, eagle, roman-alphabet letters; first work: coat of arms, countermark with roman-alphabet initials "PP" with a clover between; second work: coat of arms with a different countermark) ; MS in excellent condition. MS is rare.
Origin: [Sharḥ al-Azharīyah] Copied Jumādá al-Ūlá 1095 by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (fol. 42b)
Incipit: [شرح الازهرية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على جميع الاحوال واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده ... وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير الى مولاه الغنى خالد بن عبد الله الازهرى قد سالنى من اعتقد صلاحه ... انى اشرح مقدمة الازهرية في علم الغريب -- [نور المصباح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان والعقلاء وجعل لهم کل البهايم والجهلاء
Colophon: [شرح الازهرية] قد وفع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة بعون الله تعالى في يد عبد الفقير المحتاج الى رحمة ربه الكريم سيد محمد بن سيد ابراهيم في وقت العصر من يوم الثلثا في شهر جمادى الاولى سنة 1095 حمس وتسعين والف من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل الصاوات والتحية غفر الله لكتابه ولوالديه لاستاديه ... -- [نور المصباح] تمت کتاب نور المصباح في شعبان سنة ست وستين وثمانماية وهذا التاريخ تاريخ لمؤلفه ومصنفه. م
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and green embossed paper. Blue and red marbled paper pastedowns and end papers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Azharī, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1499—Muqaddimah al-Azharīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah
Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Stamps
Colored papers
Watermarks
Embossed papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
264

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/d213577c-739c-4039-b5f4-f37089410e11/manifest