Sharḥ Unmūdhaj Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī

Title:

Sharḥ Unmūdhaj Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī
شرح انموذج محمود الزمخشري

Alternative title:

Sharḥ al-Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw
شرح الانموذج في النحو

Creator:

Ardabīlī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī
أردبيلي، محمد بن عبد الغني

Contributor:

Khwājahʻzādah Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn al-Qasṭamūnī, former owner
Mehmet Ösman, scribe
Ūshī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān
خواجه زاده احمد بن حسين القسطموني، مالك سابق
محمد بن عثمان، ناسخ
أوشى، علي بن عثمان

Date:

1693]

Description:

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 144Origin: As appears in colophon on p.126, copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻUthmān (Mehmet Ösman) in the school of Ali Efendi, Trabzon. Transcription finished 25 Ramaḍān 1104 [ca. 30 May 1693].Accompanying materials: Insert carrying glosses (paginated pp.87-88).Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 110. Ardabili's commentary on the Unmudaj." ; "٥٩٣" on tail of textblock.Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear gold-stamped mandorla with orange onlays and gold-painted accents, accompanied by a border of gold fillets ; sewn in pink thread, two stations ; traces of worked endbands remain ; overall in fair to poor condition with some abrasion, lifting of leather, delamination of boards, etc. ; housed in envelope.Support: European laid paper, mainly with 11 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and chain lines spaced 26 mm. apart (horizontal) ; watermark with three bars in scrollwork ; crisp but sturdy, well-sized and burnished, dark cream in color with some inclusions ; a second type of European laid paper appears toward the end of the codex (name watermark, difficult to examine) ; flyleaves in still a different type (watermark with name in bar) ; some smudging and staining.Decoration: Keywords and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs.Script: mainly Naskh ; fine Turkish hand ; only partially seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs appearing on bar of kāf (shaqq) and irregularly on joined alif, initial alif lām, etc. ; mainly closed counters ; very slight effect of words descending to baseline ; rounded and freely ligatured though rightward descenders mainly tapered ; alif maqṣūrah regularly mardūdah ; replacement leaf (p.17-18) in a naskh with strong influence of nastaʻlīq.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 5 V(50), IV+1 (59), II (63) ; chiefly quinions ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes flyleaves and insert ; skips two pages between pp.43-44).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب ... على يد اضعف الخلائق المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعالى محمد ابن عثمان ... في اليوم خمس وعشرين من شهر رمضان المبارك في يوم ... السبت وقت العصر في شهر طربزون في مدرسة على افندى سنه اربع ومائة والف تم"Explicit: "وعصمنا الله من شرورهم و ... لحوارهم والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المرجع والمآب "Incipit: "الحمد لله [الذي] جعل العربية مفتاح البيان وصيرها آلة بها تحترز [؟] عن الخطأ ... وبعد يقول الفقير المولى ... جمال الله والدين محمد ابن عبد الغني الاردبيلي غفر الله له لما رأيت مختصر الامام الهمام ... جار الله ... انموذجه في النحو قليل اللفظ كثير المعنى صغير الحجم ... ولم يكن له شرح يفيد طالبه ويلقي اليه مقاصده ..."Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.11).Ms. codex.3. p.130-p.133 : [Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī] / ʻAlī ibn ʻUthmān al-Farghānī.2. p.127-129 : [blank].1. p.12-126 : Sharḥ Unmūdhaj Maḥmūd al-Zamakhsharī / al-Ardabīlī.Fine copy of al-Ardabīlī's commentary of the Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw, a treatise on Arabic grammar by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d.1144). Followed by the renowned theological poem of al-Ūshī (12th cent.), Badʼ al-Amālī (or Qaṣīdat yaqūlu al-ʻabd fī Badʼ al-Amālī) in a different hand.

Language:

Arabic

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar, 1075-1144. Unmūdhaj fī al-naḥw.
Manuscripts, Arabic
Arabic language Grammar Early works to 1800.

Extent:

63 leaves : paper ; 202 x 145 (145 x 79) mm. bound to 202 x 151 mm.

Rights:

Public Domain

Format:

Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print

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