Item Summary

Collection of four texts on lexicology, written by the same hand.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب فقه اللغة وسر العربية. كتاب نظام الغريب في اللغة ... [الخ.].
Transliterated Title
Kitāb fiqh al-lughah wa-sirr al-ʻarabīyah. Kitāb niẓām al-gharīb fī al-lughah ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3752Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/mg74qm161
Publisher
23 Ramaḍān 774 [March 26, 1373]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1373
Format
Manuscript
Extent
178 leaves : paper ; 245 x 169 (185 x 123) mm. bound to 245 x 169 mm.
Provenance
Ownership statements on fol. 1a, 90a, 91a, 103a, 165a, 166a, 177b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3759, 3760, 3778, 3784.
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 285; SI, 500/4; I, 279/2; SI, 492/2; I, 103/4; SI, 161/8.
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3759, 3760, 3778, 3784
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1b-90a: Kitāb Fiqh al-lughah wa-sirr al-ʻarabīyah / ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʻālibī. Treatise on lexicography.
2. fol. 91a-165a: Kitāb Niẓām al-gharīb fī al-lughah / ʻĪsá ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rabāʻī. Clarification of some no longer in use words mentioned in poetry. On two folios after the end of the text (fol. 165a-166a), appendix (taʻlīq).
3. fol. 166b-173b: Kitāb al-muthallath / Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanīr Quṭrub. Treatise on the words with the same consonant skeleton susceptible of having three different meanings depending on the vocalization.
4. fol. 173b-177b: Kitāb al-muthallath / Abū Isḥāq ibn al-Sarī Zajjāj (al-Zajjājī). Treatise on the words with the same consonant skeleton susceptible of having three different meanings depending on the vocalization.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title provided by cataloger.
Marginal notes. Inscription on the pastedown of the upper cover. Label on the spine with title in Arabic.
Collation: Paper, fol. 178 ; 1-21⁸ 22⁸ (+2, fol. 176-177) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thālithah" ; catchword ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning anew with each title ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Partially rubricated ; use of red for re-inking, vocalization, punctuation, and some notes ; thick dark cream glazed paper with no chain or laid lines visible.
Origin: The only date appearing in the copy is in the colophon of text 4, where it is stated that this was copied on Friday 23 Ramaḍān 774 (colophon, fol. 175b).
Incipit: [كتاب فقه اللغة] بسم ... وبه نستعين رسالة جعلها عبد الملك ... الثعالبى مقدمة لكتاب فقه اللغة وسر العربية ... قال من احب الله احب رسوله ... ومن احب الرسول العربي احب العرب ومن احب العرب احب العربية -- [كتاب نظام الغريب] بسم ... وبه نستعين الحمد لله مخرج الاسيا من العدم الى الوجود وجاعلها فى الاختلاف من التغاير -- [كتاب المثلث(قطرب)] بسم ... وبه نستعين هدا ما الفه ابو على قطرب ... هدا الكتاب المعروف المثلث وهو اسم واحد فى الكتاب ... على ثلاثه اوجه فمن ذلك الغَمر والغِمر والغُمر -- [كتاب المثلث (زجاج)] بسم ... هذا ما الفه ابو اسحاق الزجاجى فى المثلث على مثال كتاب قطرب الحباب والحباب والحُباب فاما الحباب بالفتح فالطرايق على الما اذ اضربته الريح
Explicit: [كتاب فقه اللغة] الزرع راع الطعام من الريع وهو النزل -- [كتاب نظام الغريب] والوقود اسم للحطب قال الله تعالى وقودها الناس والححاره تم الكتاب -- [كتاب المثلث(قطرب)] فاما السوار بالفتح فجمع سارية واما السوار بالكسر تم -- [كتاب المثلث(زجاج)] وان ... الاعدا بالجهاد اجهد تم
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in stiffened dark brown leather (very damaged). Paper pastedowns (blue on the upper cover, white on the lower cover).

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Lexicology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
360

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/676252f9-d032-4eb6-89d9-ae789ef52033/manifest