Item Summary

A commentary on the versification, by Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Barakāt Sadīd al-Dīn al-Warrāq al-Muhallabī al-Bahnasī, 685 [1286/7], of the ternaries of Quṭrub, 206 [821/2], which treats of those words which bear three different significations according as the first syllable is pronounced with the vowels a, i, or, u.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مثلثات قطرب للامام ابو القاسم شمس الدين عبد الوهاب بن الحسن بن بركات.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Muthallathāt Quṭrub lil-Imām Abū al-Qāsim Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Barakāt.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 288H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcff365g524
Language
Arabic
Extent
29 leaves : paper ; 157 x 113 (118 x 62) mm. bound to 168 x 119 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7076.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 246.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-24a: Kitāb Muthallathāt Quṭrub.
2. fol. 24a-28a: Qaṣīdah muthallathah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah / Ibrāhīm al-Azʹharī.
3. fol. 28b-29b: [Philological ode]
Notes
A few marginal notes; marginal summaries in red; text in red and commentary in black. Immediately after and on five following folios occur an ode entitled Qaṣīdah muthallathah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah by Ibrāhīm al-Azharī and a philological ode.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 29 + 1 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: والله سبحانه وتعالى اعلم وارحم
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الفقيه شمس الدين ابوالقاسم عبد الوهاب بن الحسن
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
70

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/313f364f-5b0a-4873-bae3-6f87b285307e/manifest