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Comments by the author on his own work on grammar entitled Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá.

Descriptive Information

Title
[نکت على قطر الندى].
Transliterated Title
[Nukat ʻalá Qaṭr al-nadá].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 68L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcmw22vj50p
Publisher
25 Dhī al-Ḥijjah 1172 [August 19, 1759]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1759
Format
Manuscript
Extent
59 leaves : paper ; 215 x 155 (155 x 100) mm bound to 216 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: seal impression of Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Darwīsh? (fol. 1a, 29a, etc.); ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mubārak [obscured] (fol. 59a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 450.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 562/3.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 47¹.
Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 328/9.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Marginal notes and inserts. Extracts (fol. 1a). Extract beginning "qāla al-Shaykh al-Raʼīs Abū Muḥammad al-Qasīm ibn ʻAlī" (fol. 59b). Label on upper cover "334, K.E, 3".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 59 ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 24-25 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Sunday 25 Dhī al-Ḥijjah 1172 by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn [obscured] (fol. 59a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال الشيخ الامام العامل ... ابن هشام الانصاري ... وبعد فهذه نکة حررتها على مقدمتي المسماة بقطر الندا وبلّ الصدى ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من زبر هذه النسخة المبارکة بعد صلاة الظهر يوم الاحد في يوم الخامس والعشرين من شهر ذي الحجة عام اثنين وسبعين بعد الالف والمائة من هجرته صلى الله عليه وسلم بقلم الفقير الراجي عفو ربه محمد ... بن حسين بن محمد ابن ... غفر الله له ولوالديه ومشايخه وجميع المسلمين امين سنة 1172
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and black paper. Endbands.

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Subject
Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf 1309-1360—Qaṭr al-nadá wa-ball al-ṣadá
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Autographs
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
128

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/35fcfecd-9eb5-4d7f-b2fa-cc97312b59e0/manifest