Item Summary

A commentary on the compendium of grammar entitled Marāḥ al-arwāḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب المفراح في شرح المراح
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb al-Mifrāḥ fī sharḥ al-Marāḥ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 372H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcr207v074b
Publisher
[not after 1836]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1000-1836
Format
Manuscript
Extent
103 leaves : paper ; 180 x 130 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 182 x 138 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥmad al-ʻUmarī dated 1152, ʻUthmān ʻUthmān ibn Ḥājjī Khalīfah[?], ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Gharfūrī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad.
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 427.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. Title page is covered with ownership signatures and other writing. Colophon is crossed out with red ink.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 103 ; catchwords ; quires signed 2-14 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-26 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in black ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. Folio 33 partly defective.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي صرف افکار قلوبنا
Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من كتابة هذا الكتاب بالمشقة ... والحمد لله رب العامين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled mandorla and decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Violet paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Masʻūd, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī active 13th century—Marāḥ al-arwāḥ
Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
217

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/79bd018a-8cd5-47a4-83ba-9df9f3cc6b0a/manifest