Descriptive Information

Title

[شرح ضوء المصباح]

Transliterated Title

[Sharḥ Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ]

Call Number

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 316H

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2v23w468m

Publisher

Ṭāshlījah, Rajab 1055 [September 1645]

Language

Arabic

Date Created

1645

Format

Manuscript

Extent

147 leaves : paper ; 199 x 137 (147 x 93) mm. bound to 198 x 144 mm.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source Acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 346.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

A few marginal notes. First folio is cut off on both ends. Illegible title on lower edge.

Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 147 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.

Description: Overlinig in red ; watermarks (crown, star) ; MS in fair condition.

Layout: 21 lines per page

Ms. codex.

Origin: According to colophon copied on a Friday in late Rajab 1055 by Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Basnawī in Ṭāshlījah at Madrasat Sulaymānīyah (fol. 147a).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Colophon: ... تمت. کتب هذا الشرح بعون الله وفضله ولطفه وکرمه محمد ابن الحاج عمر البسنوي عن قصبة طاشليجه في مدرسة سليمانية في اواخر شهر رجب الفضل والمکرم في يوم الجمعة المبارکة الشريفة سنة خمس وخمسين والف. الحمد لله على التمام

Incipit: ان من الحروف المشبهة بالفعل الناصبة الاسم

Binding Note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Similar decoration on flap.

Discovery Information

Subject

Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad -1285—Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ

Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ fī al-naḥw

Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800

Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Blind tooled bindings

Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count

289

Institutional Information

Collection

Manuscripts of the Islamic World

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9d5da37c-648e-4b87-bf41-bfcc64cd88c9/manifest

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