Manuscript fragment on two parchment bifolia (thick) of Priscian, Institutiones, containing the conclusion of Bk. III (chs. 34-44) and part of Bk. IV (chs. 9-20). The text here is accompanied by modest contemporary interlinear glosses, primarily in Latin with a few in Breton
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in elegant caroline minuscule script. Heading on f. 2v in rustic capitals., Heading touched with red and enclosed in a red rectangle. Initial letters stroked with red or yellow (faded)., Leaves stained and affected by pen trials., and Binding: Unbound; boxed. Two disbound bifolia removed from unidentified binding; originally cut in at five supports and kettle stitches. Discoloration from turn-ins and traces of boss attachments.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Ibn Jinnī, Abū al-Fatḥ ʻUthmān, -1002, author ابن جني، أبو الفتح عثمان، -1002, author
Published / Created:
1891.
Call Number:
Landberg MSS 44
Image Count:
309
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Treatise on Arabic grammar. Preceded by 6 leaves of notes, including table of contents and a note in French
Alternative Title:
Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah, Khaṣāʼiṣ al-ʻArabīyah fī ʻilm al-naḥw, خصائص العربية, and خصائص العربية في علم النحو
Description:
Copied in A.H. 1308 (A.D. 1891)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Rabbi tammim. al-Ḥamdu lillāh al-wāḥid al-ʻadl al-qadīm. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá ṣafwatihi Muḥammad wa-ālihi al-muntakhabīn, wa-ʻalayhi wa-ʻalayhim al-salām ajmaʻīn ...", Text in Arabic; notes in Arabic and French., That this is the first juzʼ only is clear from leaf 299 verso and from the colophon on leaf 309 verso; the colophon, mentioning the end of the 2d juzʼ, is taken from another manuscript in which this first juzʼ was divided into two parts., Script: Calligraphic naskhī, in red, green, blue, and black., Binding: Modern library binding., Other juzʼs wanting., and Colophon: "Ṣāra taṣḥīḥ hādhihi al-nuskhah wa-muqābalatuhā ʻalá al-nuskhah allatī nuqilat minhā awwalan, wa-ṣuḥḥiḥat wa-qūbilat ʻalá nuskhah aqdam min al-nuskhah al-ūlá, tārīkhuhā sanat 430, thalāthīn wa-arbʻmiʼah, kiltā al-nuskhatayn bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah al-Miṣrīyah, jaʻalahā Allāh ʻāmirah ilá muntahá al-zamān, wa-ḥafiẓahā min kull sūʼ fī kull waqt wa-awān, mā tajaddada al-ʻaṣr wa-taʻāqaba al-malawān. 1308, 22 Sh [Shaʻbān], 1891, ghurrat Abrīl. Kātibuhu Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Khūjah. M."