Details

Standardized Title:

Mughnī al-labīb ʻan kutub al-aʻārīb
مغني اللبيب عن كتب الاعاريب http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85203377

Subjects:

Arabic language -- Syntax.
Arabic language -- Grammar.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 16th century.
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Marginalia (annotations)

Language:

Arabic.

Summary:

Copy of a work on grammar; neatly written. A few pages at the beginning and end have had the edges restored, obscuring some text.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from added title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 175; 1¹⁰ 2⁴ 3¹² 4⁴ 5¹² 6⁴ 7¹² 8⁴ 9¹² 10⁴ 11¹² 12-21⁸ 22⁶ (-i); [i, 1-175], foliation in modern pencil, upper center recto.
Layout: Written in 26 long lines.
Script: Written in naskh script; pointed, partially vocalized.
Decoration: Rubrications and overlining in red ink.
Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); rebacked with red spine and edges; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis.
Origin: The item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
A damaged leaf containing text and marginal notes from an unrelated manuscript is laid in.
Item cataloged from digitized facsimile and existing description.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, donor.
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

OCLC:

954274745