Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Collection of works on Arabic grammar.

Authors

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249
  ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر،
• Jurjānī, ʻAbd al-Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, -1078?
  جرجاني، عبد القاهر بن عبد الرحمن،
• Zanjānī, ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm, active 1257
  زنجاني، عبد الوهاب بن ابراهيم،

Other related names

• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 359
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 13848476
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1097682642
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_359.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13848476

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic and Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Collection of works, mostly selections from larger works, in Arabic and Persian, on Arabic grammar; copied in the same hand. A table of contents was written in at the front (f. 1r). The last three works are in Persian, of those, the two shorter works (5, 6) are in the form of questions and answers.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Collective title supplied by cataloger; titles of other works from added table of contents.
   
• Flag with text "Gottheil" in pencil inserted between f. 40v-41r; possibly a reference to Richard J. H. Gottheil.
   

Extent

119 leaves : 200 x 125 (135 x 70) mm, bound to 202 x 137 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in blue black paper over pulpboard with paper onlays: central mandorla and two red pendants on the vertical axis; pink textile spine. Most of the paper side on the back is missing.

Layout

9 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink.

Provenance

• Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Morphology--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Verb--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Inflection--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Onlays (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Collection of works on Arabic grammar].
• fol. 1v — Kāfiyah / Ibn al-Ḥājib
• fol. 51v — Fī al-ḥurūf allatī tajurru al-asmāʼ faqaṭ
• fol. 61r — ʻAwāmil fī al-naḥw / ʻAbd Qāhir ibn ʻAbd al-Rahmān Jurjānī
• fol. 71r — Taṣrīf al-ʻIzzī
• fol. 81v — Asʼilah fī al-naḥw
• fol. 87r — Asʼilah fī al-ṣarf
• fol. 90v — Kitab al-mukhtaṣarāt

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Pen tests
• fol. 1r — Table of contents
• Insert recto — Notation: "Gottheil"
• fol. 119v — Notations
• Inside back cover — Pen tests