Author
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505
Author Original
Suyūṭī, 1445-1505, سيوطي، 1445-1505
Publication Date
1105
Publication Place
-
8 Muḥarram 1105 [September 9, 1693?]
Subject
Grammarians—Arab countries—Biography—Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton, Autographs, Blind tooled bindings, Watermarks (Paper)
Type
Book
Language
ar
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
Princeton University Library
Library Asset ID
9963573113506421
Record ID
dcfx719x30j
Library Location
Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 211H
Date
01-01-1693 T00:00:00 AH/909-12-31 T:Khas:Khasz — 1693-909
Notes
A well-known biographical dictionary of eminent lexicographers and grammarians. | 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)., Colophon: The completion of its writing was after the afternoon prayer on Thursday, the eighth month of Muharram al-Haram, beginning of the year 1105 One-hundred-thousandth-fifth of the Prophet’s Migration. The best blessings and most pure peace be upon its owner and upon his family and all his companions. Incipit: In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful... Praise be to God, the Creator of generosity | Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on cover and flap. | full color copy | 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. | Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der Arabischen Handschriften, 10062., Browne, Hand-list of the Muḥammadan manuscripts, 137., Die Arabischen, persischen und türkischen handsschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1175., Fihrist al-Kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, p. 19., Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 153/4., Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 698., Rieu, Supplement of the catalog of the Arabic Mss, 649.