Item Summary

A compendium of syntax.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب غاية الطلاب في معرفة الاعراب / تصنيف بدر الدين.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ghāyat al-ṭullāb fī maʻrifat al-iʻrāb / taṣnīf Badr al-Dīn.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 354H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcd504rw64w
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1386
Extent
19 leaves : paper ; 179 x 128 (134 x 98) mm. bound to 179 x 128 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Zayn al-Dīn al-Anṣārī[?]; Muḥammad[?] ibn Muḥammad ʻAbd [?] dated 991(fol. 1a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 421.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. It is likely that the author is Badr al-Dīn ibn Mālik, 686 [1287], the son of Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Mālik 600-672 [1203/4-1274].
Collation: Paper ; fol. 19 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; several folios are tinted light brown ; MS in fair condition; several folios are foxed and mended. It appears that the edge of the MS was trimmed.
Origin: According to colophon copied 17 Rabīʻ I 788 by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥanafī (fol. 19b).
Incipit: بسم الله ... الهادي من يشاء الى صراط مستقيم
Colophon: ... تم الکتاب بحمد العزيز الوهاب في سابع عشر شهر ربيع الاول سنة ثمان وثمانين وسبعمائة على يد العبد الفقيرالى الله تعالى احمد ابن احمد الحنفي عامله الله تع[الى] بلطفه الخفي وحسبنا الله ونعم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow paper with block-pressed design. Violet paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
46

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/6bf62275-444a-428d-ac33-ac3574a1c30f/manifest