Item Summary

A commentary on al-Maqṣūd.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب الامعان لبركوي على المقصود.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Imʻān li-Birkawī ʻalá al-Maqṣūd.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 377H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8623j818f
Publisher
[not after 1820]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1820
Format
Manuscript
Extent
36 leaves : paper ; 194 x 133 (146 x 60) mm. bound to 195 x 135 mm.
Provenance
Presumably the same owner variously signed as: Isḥaq Ḥaqqī Janānīʹzādah, Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Amīn, and Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad Amīn Janānīʹzādah. Another owner signature: ʻAbd al-[?] ibn Muḥammad.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 306.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal glosses and interlinear notes on first two folios. On upper cover, title page and two pages preceding the first occur several autographs of owners and a few notes, one dated 1235. After colophon and on following folio are two magic squares, an autograph of an owner, a Turkish note and opening words of al-Burdah of al-Būṣīrī.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 35 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs on first three folios ; watermarks (circular design with countermark roman-alphabet letters "Vd" with clower in between) ; MS in fair condition with staining across the top of most leaves.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الواهب کل موهوب
Colophon: ولوالدي ولجميع المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الاحياء منهم والاموات م م م
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and paper. Multi-colored lower endband.

Discovery Information

Subject
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
magic squares
Headbands
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
83

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/63141455-c600-4d27-a691-9c55d564e1f8/manifest