Item Summary

Several compendiums of grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب المراح ... [الخ]
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Marāḥ ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 369H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbv73c984f
Publisher
1174 [1760 or 1761]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1760
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(2), 83, (1) leaves : paper ; 172 x 112 (125 x 65) mm bound to 172 x 113 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 422, 396, 302, 487, 492.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 208 ; V, p. 487; VI, p. 91; II, p. 68.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 2, 12-18.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6615/6; 6805/6; 6796/7; 6825/6⁵; 6817/8.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 955.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-32a: Hādhā Kitāb Marāḥ / Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī ibn Masʻūd.
2. fol. 32b-33a: [blank]
3. fol. 33b-43b: ʻIzzī.
4. fol. 44a: [blank]
5. fol. 44b-53a: Maqṣūd.
6. fol. 53b-54a: [blank]
7. fol. 54b-61a: Bināʼ.
8. fol. 61b-63a: [blank]
9. fol. 64b-83b: al-Amthilah min al-mukhtalif.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from heading (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlineal notes in Arabic and Turkish.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 83 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold and black.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (roman-alphabet letters "...venice..[?]") ; MS in good condition. One or more folios are missing between folios 72 and 73.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces in gold, orange, white, blue, and pink (fol. 1b, 32b, 44b, 54b); final work lacking a headpiece.
Origin: According to colophon copied 1174 (fol. 83b).
Incipit: [مراح] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اعلم ان الصرف ام العلوم -- [عزي] بسم الله ... اعلم ان التصريف في اللغة التغيير -- [مقصود] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الوهاب ... اما بعد فان العربية وسيلة الى المعلوم الشرعية -- [بناء] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. اعلم ان ابواب التصريف خمسة وثلثون بابا ستة منها للثلاثي المجرد -- [الامثلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نصر ينصر نصراً فهو ناصر وذاك منصور
Colophon: [مراح] تمت الاوراق بعون الخلاق. تم -- [عزي] تمت الاوراق. تم تم تم -- [مقصود] تم الکتاب بعون الخلاق. تم -- [بناء] صحيحست [صحيح] مثالست [مثال] مضاعف لفيف ناقص مهموز اجوف. تم -- [الامثلة] تمت الکتا[ب] بعون الله تعالى سنة 1174. تم
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? half-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and marbled paper. Red paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Inflection—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Verb—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
headpieces (layout features)
illuminated manuscripts
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
182

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/877381f9-03c2-4987-b818-846477426da6/manifest