Item Summary

Commentary on al-Maqṣūrah by Ibn Durayd (d. 321/933).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح مقصورة الاديب محمد ابن دريد / للعلامة مهذب الدين ابي المحاسن مهلب بن حسن بن بركات المهلبي البهنسي رحمه الله
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Maqṣūrat al-Adīb Muḥammad Ibn Durayd / lil-ʻAllāmah Muhadhdhib al-Dīn Abī al-Maḥāsin Muhallab ibn Ḥasan ibn Barakāt al-Muhallabī al-Bahnasī raḥimahu Allāh.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3538Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sf2688884
Publisher
[12--?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1200-1299
Extent
62 leaves: paper ; 193 x 133 (165 x 95) mm. bound to 193 x 145 mm.
Provenance
Erased ownership statement on fol. before fol. 1. From the books of Muḥammad al-Ḥifnāwī (fol. 1a). Impression of a seal on fol. 60b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 4043
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 172 (25/1. Cmt. 7)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 14 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is framed within a single line in red ink (irregular). Thick dark cream to biscuit paper with large laid lines visible. The two first leaves are later additions (two different tupes of European paper). Biographical note on the author on fol. 1a, apparently by the same hand as the title. The quires (mainly quinions) are numbered using Arabic ordinals. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits the first fol.). Inner margin worm eaten.
Reading statement in the name of al-Qāḍī Jamāl al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad on fol. 61b.
Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Dhū al-Qaʻdah 6-- [Mach reads 636] (fol. 61b).
Incipit: قال الفقير الامام الاوحد مهذب الدين ابو المحاسن مهلب بن حسن ابن بركات المهلبى المصدركان بالجامع العتيق بمصر رحمه الله بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه استعين اخبرنى بمقصورة ابى بكر محمد بن الحسين بن دريد هذه مجردة من اشرح الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم ابو طالب عبد الجبار بن محمد بن على المعافرى رحمه الله بمصر سنة اثنين وخمسين وخمسمائة
Binding Note
Quarter bound with flap in dark blue and grey paper and brown leather. Ocre paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
67

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3be9ebed-2bd1-4000-8eff-8f45147bd127/manifest