Item Summary

Collection of commentaries on grammatical texts.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح على التصريف العزي] ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ ʻalá al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 358H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc2b88qp58b
Publisher
1144-1163 [1731-1750]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1731-1750
Format
Manuscript
Extent
158 leaves : paper ; 213-221 x 144-156 (145-177 x 60-122) mm bound to 221 x 165 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 399, 305, 307, 491, 308, 317.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 91; II, p. 68.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 98; IV, pp. 5/6; IV, p. 14.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6798/9, 6801;
Catalogue des manuscrits et xylographes orientaux de la Bibliothèque impériale publique de St. Pétersbourg, 160.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4212.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 1964.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-49b: [Sharḥ ʻalá al-Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī]. Commentary on Zanjānī's Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf. Extensively glossed. Two folios of notes after the colophon.
2. fol. 50a-76b: Imʻān al-anẓār / al-Birkawī. A commentary on al-Maqṣūd. On title page are two quotations from Khayyālī Chalabī. Fol. 76b mentions the authorʼs visit to Bakbāsh, a village in the district of Kabīd in 982.
3. fol. 77a-109b: Rūḥ al-shurūḥ. A commentary on al-Maqṣūd. Text is preceded and followed by grammatical notes. Between folios 8 and 9 and between folios 28 and 29 are inserted smaller folios bearing notes.
4. fol. 110a-130a: Mirqāt ʻalá al-Bināʼ. A commentary on Bināʼ al-afʻāl. It is also known as Qirāʼat al-ṣibyān. Text is preceded and followed by grammatical notes.
5. fol. 130b-134a: [Anonymous commentary on al-Amthilah] Commentary on a work about Arabic paradigms.
6. fol. 134b-135a: [Grammatical note, names of the constellations]
7. fol. 135b-149b: Ḍiyāʼ al-qulūb wa-tanwīr al-Maqṣūd. An abridgment of the first part of al-Maqṣūd.
8. fol. 150a: [Inscriptions]
9. fol. 150b-155b: Hadīyat al-ṣibyān / Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAlī al-Awralawī. Grammatical analysis of the ʻAwāmil al-miʼah.
10. fol. 155b-158a: [Turkish commentary on al-Amthilah?]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Stamp impression on fol. 136a.
Collation: Paper ; fol. viii + 158 + xii ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals.
Layout: 17-24 lines per page ; Imʻān al-anẓār frame-ruled in green.
Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (flyleaves only: bird with roman-alphabet letters "BG", coat of arms with a lion topped by a crown) ; different papers used ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Imʻān al-anẓār] Copied in Qasṭamūnī 1144 by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥarram (fol. 76a) -- [Rūḥ al-shurūḥ] Copied 1163 (fol. 130a) -- [Mirqāt ʻalá al-Bināʼ] Copied 1162 (fol. 130a)
Incipit: [شرح التصريف] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله اجمعين فاقول لما كان من الواجب على كل طالب شيئ -- [امعان الانظار] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله الواهب کل موهوب من المرصود والمقصود والمطلوب -- [روح الشروح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله المتعال عن الند -- [مرقات] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. احمد حمدا الله الذي علم قواعد التصريف والابواب -- [ضياء القلوب] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. الحمد لله والسلام على عباده الذي اصطفى. هذا مختصر في اوائل المقصود -- [هدية الصبيان] الحمد لله وجب علينا ثناوءه ولمن لا يزول من حب العم
Colophon: [شرح التصريف] تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب م م م -- [امعان الانظار] تمت. نمقه الفقير احمد بن محمد بن محرم المؤذن بجامع حاجي طورسون الواقع بمدينة قسطموني غفر الله له ولوالديه واحسن اليهما واليه سنة اربع واربعين ومائة والف -- [روح الشروح] تمة [تم] کتاب [الکتاب] المسمى بروح الشروح في سنة 1163 -- [مرقات] وهو واما بدل الکل من الکل من هذا البيت تمت سنة 1162 -- [ضياء القلوب] تمت [تم] بعون الله الملك الوهاب في [على] يد علي بن مصطفى -- [هدية الصبيان] تمت
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in leather and marbled paper. Orangish-yellow paper pastedown and flyleaves. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm active 1257—Mabādiʼ fī al-taṣrīf
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf
Dunquzī, ʻAbd Allāh active 17th century—Bināʼ al-afʻāl
Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān -1078?—ʻAwāmil al-miʼah
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
379

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/5c227bf9-0905-4373-88ef-74ab8a6e94d0/manifest