Item Summary

Three grammatical treatises.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح العوامل المائة] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 386H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc05742313b
Publisher
Istanbul ; Cyprus, Friday Rabīʻ II 1154-22 Ṣafar 1158 [June/July 1741-March 26, 1745]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1741-1745
Format
Manuscript
Extent
105, (1) leaves : paper ; 215 x 150 (147 x 76) mm. bound to 215 x 156 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 468, 323, 328.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 346; I, p. 468.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6783, 6514/5.
Rosen, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Institut des langues orientales, 143.
Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 509.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 25.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 167.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 178².
Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 196¹.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 223.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-75a: Kashf al-asrār sharḥ al-Iẓhār. A commentary on Iẓhār al-asrār fī al-naḥw, a grammatical treatise by the author's teacher Bir ʻAlī, known as Bīrkilī.
2. fol. 75b-87a: [Sharḥ al-ʻAwāmil al-miʼah]
3. fol. 87b-88b: [blank]
4. fol. 89a: [notes]
5. fol. 89b-105b: [al-Unmūdhaj] A treatise on syntax, being an abridgment of the authorʼs famous work al-Mufaṣṣal.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes. On fol. 1a-2a are several grammatical and other notes including statements about Bīrkilī and al-Jārabardī, 746 [1345]. Edges of al-Unmūdhaj are trimmed except of fol. 89, where it is folded to preserve a marginal note.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 105 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Text is overlined in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (crown, long row of roman-alphabet letters; roman-alphabet letters in an oblong; grapes) ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
Origin: [Kashf al-asrār] Copied Friday Rabīʻ II 1154 by Ḥasan ibn Junayd al-Ḥirafī al-Daghstānī at the Suleymaniya Mosque? (fol. 75a) -- [al-Unmūdhaj] Copied 22 Ṣafar 1158 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān in Cyprus (fol. 105b)
Incipit: [کشف الاسرار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الولي الانعام -- [شرح العوامل] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. باسم الله اي باستعانة الله -- [الانموذج] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الکمة مفرد اما اسم کرجل واما فعل کضرب واما حرف کقد
Colophon: [کشف الاسرار] فاطر السموات والارض والانام ووقع الاختتام في يوم الجمعة قبيل العصر في شهر ربيع الاخر في سنة 1154 بيدي الحقير الفقير ... حسن ابن الشيخ جنيد الحرفي الدغستاني عفى [عفا] الله عنهما وعن کل المسلمين في المدرسة ... السلطان ابن السلطان السلطان سليمان قانباه اللهم نور قبره وروح روحه وطيب ضريحه واغفر له وارحمه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين -- [شرح العوامل] تم ولله الحمد -- [الانموذج] تم هذا الکتاب عن يد الفقير عبد الرحمن بجزيرة قبرس سنة 1158 ص 22
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Birgivî Mehmet Efendi approximately 1522-1573—Iẓhār al-asrār
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
223

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/497ada4a-2a7b-4a38-a8b9-d68d6196ab3d/manifest