Item Summary

Three commentaries on works of rhetoric and versification.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح اندلسي في العروض ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Andalusī fī al-ʻarūḍ ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 405H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcff365g721
Publisher
1135 [1722]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1722
Format
Manuscript
Extent
90 leaves : paper ; 207 x 139 (146-155 x 60-73) mm bound to 206 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 501, 555, 559.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 201; IV, p. 392.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 274.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7143/4; 7299/300; 7304/5.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 361, 2800-2, 2807.
Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 234², 239³, 244³.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-26a: Sharḥ Andalusī fī al-ʻarūḍ. A commentary on al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ. Title in Hitti's Catalogue "Ḥall mushkilāt al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-ʻarūḍ".
2. fol. 26b-29a: [blank]
3. fol. 29b-46b: [Sharḥ Farāʼid al-fawāʼid] A commentary on Farāʼid al-fawāʼid, a work on rhetoric commonly known as al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.
4. fol. 47a: [blank]
5. fol. 47b-90a: Ḥawāshin ʻalá al-Sharḥ ... ʻIṣām al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ... ʻalá Risālat al-Istiʻārāt li-...Abī al-Qāsim al-Laythī al-Samarqandī. A gloss on the commentary of ʻIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʼinī on Farāʼid al-fawāʼid, commonly known as al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlineal notes. Three lines of poetry and a list of titles in the volume on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 90 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-23 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Written in Fārisī and general scripts ; rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; fol. 1-28 yellow paper ; watermarks (fol. 1-28: coat-of-arms; fol. 29-90: grapes, roman-alphabet letters in an oval under a crown) ; MS in good condition; a few folios are mended.
Origin: [Sharḥ Farāʼid al-fawāʼid] According to colophon copied 1135 by ʻAbd Allāh al-mashhūr bi-Dạmād Ṣabrʹzādah? (fol. 46b) -- [Ḥawāshin ʻalá al-Sharḥ] Copied 1135 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muṣṭafá (fol. 90a).
Incipit: [شرح اندلسى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. توکلت على الله على اتمامه ... احمد الله على ان قصر سلامة الطبع على نوع الانسان -- [شرح فرائد] بسم الله ... يقول العبد المفتقر الى الطاف ربه الخفية -- [حاشية على شرح] بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي خلق الانسان علمه البيان
Colophon: [شرح اندلسى] تم الکتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب. الحمد لله على التمام والصلوة على رسوله محمد وآله مع السلام تم تم تم -- [شرح فرائد] نام القلم في يد عبد الله المشهور بداماد الصلحاء صبر زاده منحهما الله الحسنى وزيادة سنة 1135 -- [حاشية على شرح] کتبه الفقير الى الله ذي العطاء عبد الله بن مصطفى رزقهما الله الحسنى في سنة مؤرخة بکذا سنة 1135 تماما
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū al-Jaysh, Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn -1228 or 1229—ʻArūḍ al-Andalusī
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr active 15th century—Risālah al-Samarqandīyah
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
ʻIṣām al-Asfarāyīnī, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad 1468 or 1469-1538 or 1539—Sharḥ al-Risālah al-Samarqandīyah
Samarqandī, Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī Bakr active 15th century—Risālah al-Samarqandīyah fī al-istiʻārāt
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
191

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/2038bdf2-0187-4f1b-92c7-8d7ac5c9498f/manifest