Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211H.

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DS ID:

DS2724

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211H.

Title:

Kitāb Bughyat al-wuʻāh fī ṭabaqāt al-lughawīyīn wa-al-nuḥāh /

Date:

8 Muḥarram 1105 September 9, 1693?

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: (3), 250, (2) leaves : paper ; 240 x 170 (172 x 120) mm. bound to 241 x 180 mm.

Note:

Collation: Paper ; fol. (3) + 250 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
Layout: 26-28 lines per page.
Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. In the introduction the author states that this work is a redaction from a larger work of his which he composed in seven volumes but never published. Before the colophon the author states that this book was composed 871 1467. Four folios before title page are 4 lines of poetry.
Ms. codex.
Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 8 Muḥarram 1105 by Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Aḥsāʼī (fol. 250b).
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Title page has ownership signatures: ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar Afandī ...zādah, then Aḥmad Jamal al-Layl, then Miḥḍār ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Early works

Biographies

Autographs

Blind tooled bindings

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Grammarians

Arab countries

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573113506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2c90c835-3421-40d5-b0da-fd0a7e01ea75/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University