Item Summary

Collection of Persian and Arabic texts on grammar, prosody and Qurʼanic recitation.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح تصريف ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ-i taṣrīf ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 444L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcqr46rd40
Publisher
[18th century]
Language
Persian
Date Created
1700-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
72 leaves : paper ; 211 x 157 (154-165 x 80-120) mm bound to 207 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 444
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-45a: Sharḥ-i taṣrīf / Ḥāfiẓ Ṣāliḥ. Persian commentary on the Arabic grammatical treatise Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf.
2. fol. 45b-48b: Risālah tataʻallaqa bi-tajwīd al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm. On recitation of the Qurʼan. Fully vocalized.
3. fol. 49a-72a: Kitāb ʻIlm al-ʻArūḍ / Vaḥīd Tabrīzī. Treatise on Persian prosody and poetical ornaments. Contains diagrams.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from colophon of first work (fol. 45a).
Inscription: "K&E N. 367" (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 72 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15-21 lines per page ; fol. 45-48 frame-ruled in red and black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "GT" and "B[?]", three stars, three crescents; paper in replacement margins: "[M]asso", "GM" and coat-of-arms, "Dominario Galimari?" and coat-of-arms) ; MS in fair condition; margins of some pages replaced.
Origin: [Sharḥ-i taṣrīf] Copied 1190 (fol. 45a).
Incipit: [شرح تصريف] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعلم ان التصريف فى اللغة التيغير يد انكه يدرستى كه تصريف در لغت عرب بمعنى تغيراست ... -- [رسالة تتعلق بتجزويد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... اما بعد فهذه رسالة تتعلق بتجويد القرأن العظيم وهو نافعة ان شآء الله تعالى ... -- [كتاب علم العروض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم سپاس بيقياس واجب التعظيمى را که بتشريف نطق آنانرا مشرف ساخت و کلام موزون و علم اوزان موهبت كرد ... اما بعد بد انكه اين مختصر سيت از منسئات وحيد تبريزي در علم عروض ...
Colophon: [شرح تصريف] تمت هذا الرسالة المسمى شرح تصريف من تصنيف العبد العلى بن محمد معروف بحافظ صالح العلم سنه 1190 م م م م م م -- [رسالة تتعلق بتجزويد] ... الكاظم المعين الواحد الهادى اليمين م م م -- [كتاب علم العروض] والله اعلم بالصواب اللهم اغز لمحرمه ولصاحبه امين وصاحبه افندى
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather.

Discovery Information

Subject
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm active 1257—Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf
Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Persian language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
diagrams

Physical Characteristics

File Count
152

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3e4b143a-ccda-43b9-9ed9-63784a805423/manifest