Item Summary

A commentary on Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح مراح دنق[وز]
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Marāḥ Dunq[ūz]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 375H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4b29bh417
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
76 leaves : paper ; 210 x 144 (143 x 95) mm. bound to 208 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 430.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Inscriptions, geometric figures and a kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on title page and the folio preceding. Calligraphy practice on fol. 76b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 76 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (anchor with a star on top) ; MS in good condition with some staining and several folios are worm-eaten.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحىم اللهم ىا مصرف القلوب صرف قلوبنا نحو رضائك
Colophon: تم الكتاب المسمى بدنقوز لحمد الله رحمه واسه
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī active 13th century—Marāḥ al-arwāḥ
Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
162

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b47f58bb-b4c3-451e-8994-0457478de703/manifest