Item Summary

A glossary of rare words used by ancient poets, arranged according to subject-matter.

Descriptive Information

Title
نضام الغريب في اللغة العربية / عيسى بن ابراهيم بن محمد الربعي.
Transliterated Title
Niḍām al-gharīb fī al-lughah al-ʻArabīyah / ʻĪsá ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Rabaʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 293H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcgf06gc92d
Publisher
2 Ramaḍān 1065 [July 6, 1655]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1665
Format
Manuscript
Extent
101 leaves : paper ; 209 x 152 (136 x 100) mm. bound to 219 x 158 mm.
Provenance
On title page are two autographs of owners, one obliterated, the other for al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad [?] dated 1225.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7039.
Browne, Supplementary hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 1316.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 68.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 354.
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 267.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 918ˡˡˡ, 1214ˡ.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 101 + i ; catchwords ; every 10th folio numbered in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (three crescents, roman-alphabet letters "[?]B" ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 16-18 lines per page ; fol. 1b-2a frame-ruled.
Marginal notes. On page after the colophon is a quotation from Maʻālim al-tanzīl of al-Farrāʼ al-Baghawī, 510 [1117].
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 2[?] Ramaḍān 1065 by al-Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad al-Muqrī al-Musawwirī (fol. 101a).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Colophon: تم الکتاب بحمد الملك الوهاب والصلوة والسلام على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم اجمعين. بتاريخ نهار الثلثاء من شهر رمضان المعظم من شهور سنة خمسة وستون [ستين] بعد الف [الالف] بخط افقر الورى واحوجهم اليه الحسين بن احمد المقري المسوري ... کتبه في بحر ... هجرة المضرع حرسه الله ... برسم الشيخ الاکمل عين السبعة الاخيار والفضلاء الابرار علي بن عبد الله کاتب مولاي السيد الجليل علي بن ابرهيم امتع بجيوته ... تقبل الله من الجميع بحق محمد واله
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله مخرج الاشياء من العدم الى الوجود
Binding Note
Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown material and dark brown spotted paper. Brown paper pastedowns and flyleaves. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

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

Physical Characteristics

File Count
214

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/7d456df7-cd31-438a-a1d9-9f3d342f1314/manifest