- Tawjīh al-basmalah
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- Middle East Manuscripts
- From A to Z: Dictionaries across the Arabo-Persian World
- Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
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- Language:
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- Arabic
- Call number:
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- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 398H
- Extent:
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- 59 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 215-227 x 160 (140-148 x 65-85) mm. bound to 224 x 162 mm.
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- Manuscript
- Book
- Description:
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- Ms. composite codex.
- Title from colophon (fol. 5b).
- Marginal and interlineal notes and glosses. On fol. 1a are traces of two erased titles which read Sharḥ ʻAwāmil jadīd and Tuḥfat al-ikhwān together with the titles Risālat Basmahʹlah and Risālat Marghūbah fī ʻilm al-karrah. Some texts have illustrations.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 59 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 13-19 lines per page.
- Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; vowel signs ; folio size varies ; watermarks (grapes? (fol. 2); small crown (fol. 9); coat-of-arms, roman-alphabet letters "DV" (fol. 11-20); three hats (fol. 24-28; crown, roman-alphabet lettering (fol. 51-58)) ; MS in good condition except fol. 51-58 have water staining.
- Origin: [Tawjīh al-basmalah] According to colophon copied Rabīʻ I 1197 (fol. 5b)
- Incipit: [توجيه البسملة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. يمکن الکلام فيه من جهات الفنون الاثني عشر اما من جهة اللغة -- [مسالك] سم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي کرمنا بالعلم والبيان وفضلنا بهما على الحيوان -- [کتاب عروض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... اما بعد فقد قصدت في هذا المختصر ان اذکر علل الاعاريض -- [On inheritance] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ميتك تركه منه تعلق ايدن حقوق مرتبه در تدر تدهيز تكفين قضاء ديون
- Colophon: [توجيه البسملة] قد تم توجيه البسملة المجيد الجليل بيد الاضعف الجليل الموجهة بوجوه البسملة السبحاني وهو الشهير عند الناس باق کرماني قدس سره الغفراني بحرمة ذي المعجزة البرهاني تمت 1197 ربيع الاول -- [مسالك] اعلم ان حرف ب على نوعين الاول مخفف من با بحذ... -- [کتاب عروض] تمت العروض. تمم
- Publisher:
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- [17uu-1900]
- Subject:
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- Basmalah—Early works to 1800
- Persian language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
- Niẓām al-Mulk 1018-1092—Poetry—Early works to 1800
- Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
- Arabic language—Early works to 1800
- Calligraphy, Arabic—Early works to 1800
- Arabs—Biography—Early works to 1800
- Spices—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton
- Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
- diagrams
- tables (documents)
- Poetry
- Illustrated works
- Watermarks
- Spatial:
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- New Jersey
- Text language:
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- In Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Greek;
- Binding note:
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- Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and blue and brown marbled paper.
- Donor:
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- Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961
- Contributor:
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 398H
- Created:
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- 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/1900-12-31T23:59:59Z
- Date:
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- 1700-1900
- Abstract:
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- Three linguistic treatises followed by miscellaneous fragments.
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/dc76537b819
- Location:
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- Special Collections Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 398H
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
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- Logical
- Type:
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- Poetry
- Contents:
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- 1. fol. 1a-5b: Tawjīh al-basmalah. A linguistic commentary on the basmalah.
- 2. fol. 11b-20b: Masālik al-durrīyah fī qawāʻid al-Fārisīyah. A preface to the principles of the Persian language. Incomplete at the end.
- 3. fol. 21a: [Fragment of Kitāb ʻArūḍ, etc.]
- 4. fol. 21b-28a: Kitāb ʻArūḍ. A compendium of prosody including a supplement of metrical measures (fol. 26b-28a). With diagrams.
- 5. fol. 29b-32b: [On inheritance] In Persian. With tables.
- 6. fol. 33a: [Biographical fragment on Shābūr ibn Hurmuz]
- 7/ fol. 33b: Ḥabb sulṭānī. A lIst of spices.
- 8. fol. 35b-37b: Qaṣīdah Tarjīʻīyah. Better known as al-Qaṣīdah al-Ṭanṭarānīyah in praise of the great vizier of the Saljūqs, Niẓām al-Mulk.
- 9. fol. 38b-39b: [Miscellaneous fragments]
- 10. fol. 40a-42b: [Fragments of a biographical dictionary]
- 11. fol. 43b-50b: Fī aḥwāl al-ḥurūf al-hijāyah wa-al-ḥarakāt al-ʻArabīyah. An incomplete work on the Arabic alphabet and vowel signs with interlinear Greek translation.
- 12. fol. 51a-58b: [Treatise on Arabic calligraphy] A fragment of a Turkish work on the art of Arabic calligraphy. With illustrations.
- Provenance:
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- Ownership signature: Muḥammad ʻĀrif Afandī al-shahīr bi-Ṭūrʹshaykhīʹzādah[?] (fol. 1a)
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source acquisition:
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- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References:
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- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 477, 480, 500.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 200/1.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, p. 143.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7141/2.
- Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 359/60.
- Vollers, Katalog der Islamischen, Christlich-Orientalischen, Judischen und Samaritanischen Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Leipzig, 485, 883xv.
- Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 679³.
- Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 271.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1253.
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