Item Summary

A commentary on Bināʼ al-afʻāl, a work on paradigms, followed by a commentary on al-Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf on grammar

Descriptive Information

Title
مرشد الغناء بشرح امثلة البناء ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Murshid al-ghināʼ bi-sharḥ amthilat al-Bināʼ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 85L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9p290n31m
Publisher
[19th century]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Format
Manuscript
Extent
84 leaves : paper ; 207 x 145 (155 x 85-105) mm bound to 206 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Khābāsh Kātibʹzādah with his seal impression (fol.1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2180.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6828.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-39a: Murshid al-ghināʼ bi-sharḥ amthilat al-Bināʼ.
2. fol. 40a-84a: Sharḥ al-Maqṣūd fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf al-musammá bi-al-Shukrīyah. This MS variously attributed to Ibn ʻImād and to Aḥmad ibn Ḥammād.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 1b).
Marginal notes. French inscription (fol. 1a)
Collation: Paper ; fol. 84 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (coat-of-arms?; unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: [Murshid al-ghināʼ] Copied 21 Ṣ[afar] [1]257 by Muḥammad Darwīsh (fol. 39a).
Incipit: [مرشد الغناء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى ملاء قلوب عباده بالحكمة والنور وجعل العلماء من بين عباده ... وبعد قال ضحى الفقير الى رحمه ربه القدير لما كان بناء الامثلة كتابا محتاجا اليه ... -- [شرح المقصود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ويه النستعين الحمد لله شرف العلوم وروج بضاعتها واعز طالبهم وثمن واسلفها ... وبعد فان اقرب العلوم فائدة وادلجها ...
Colophon: [مرشد الغناء] تمت هذ الشرح اللطيف على يد اضعف الكتاب ملا محمد نجل المرحوم الحاج درويش افندى امينى قوى يوم الثلاثا في واحد وعشرين من شهر صفر الخير 21 ص سنة 257 -- [شرح المقصود] تمت وبالخير عمت
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and paper. Upper cover decorated with blue and black ink circular and triangular designs. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Dunquzī, ʻAbd Allāh active 17th century—Bināʼ al-afʻāl
Abū Ḥanīfah -767 or 768—Maqṣūd fī al-taṣrīf
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Headbands
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
178

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/e78de7ce-5801-4b8a-8858-a71b34533c9a/manifest