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اللباب
al-Lubāb.
Author
Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, -1285
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اسفرائني، محمد بن محمد
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Uniform title
Lubāb al-iʻrāb
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لباب الاعراب
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
Tarki, [1826]
Description
ii, 59, ii leaves : paper ; 220 x 170 (155 x 110) mm. bound to 220 x 175 mm.
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Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 3130Y
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Subject(s)
Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Arabic language
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Grammar
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History
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13th century
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Copyist
Shāmil, Imām, 1798?-1871
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Summary note
Treatise on Arabic grammar, comprising an introduction and four parts (qism). On the confusion with the author's Lubb al-albāb, see Mach, R. Yahuda, no. 3584.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 58a).
Physical description: 15 lines per page. Written in medium large taʻlīq in black ink, with use of red and green. European paper with watermark, glossy. Marginal and interlinear annotations. Short excerpts from several texts, including Ḥāshiyat Ramlī and Bughiyat al-ṭālibīn, on fol. 1a-b and 58b-59b. Annotations and short excerpts from several texts on slips of paper placed between the original leaves. Two of these slips (the beginning of a letter; a document) are now shelved separately. Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals (starts with "1" on fol. 3a).
Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Thānī naḥw 31". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "81 15".
Origin: Copied by Shamīl on Monday [30] ("al-yawm al-akhīr") Ramaḍān 1241 [May 8, 1826], in the Jāmiʻ Targhūl [i.e., the Mosque of Tarki, see The Library of Imam Shamil], with ʻAlī al-Mukrāṭī al-Kulzī (colophon, fol. 58a). A note on the margin by Shamīl ("Shamwīl") mentions the date Rajab 1241 [Feb.-March 1826], and the fact that at this date he was 29.
Incipit: قال الاستاذ الامام الاجل الكبير الخبر المغنم النحرير ملك فضلاء الانام تاج الملة والدين شرف الاسلام والمسلمين محمد بن محمد بن احمد بن السبغا الاسفرائنى المعروف بالفاضل تغمده الله بغفرانه احمد الله على ما تناسقت من الكعوب اياديه ... وبعد فقد تقرر فى هذا الكتاب من لباب الاعراب ما ينقيظ شوارده ويرتبط فيه اوايده
Explicit: اقتضى له وجها من الاعراب بين الاول والثانى وهو اما النصب او الجر واوثر النصب لخفته ولما ان عوامله اشيهت نواضب الاسم وبهذا اثنين وجه اختصاص الجر بالاسم والجزم بالفعل تم ولله الحمد
Binding note
Light green cloth over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Marbled paper pastedown and free endpaper.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3584
Kemper, M., A. Shikhsaidov, N. Tagirova. The Library of Imam Shamil, in Princeton University Library Chronicle, LXIV, no. 1 (Autumn 2002), p. 131 and n. 28 and 30
Other title(s)
متن لباب الاعراب لمحمد بن محمد الاسفرائني
Title on fol. (i)a (later hand)
Matn Lubāb al-iʻrāb li-Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Isfarāʼinī
OCLC
166228112
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