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234 - Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, grammar book, Ottoman Turkey, copied i…
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Al-Sharif al-Jurjani, grammar book, Ottoman Turkey, copied in April 1469 Small Ottoman manuscript on paper. Text on the grammar of 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani, Hashiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharif 'ala al-Mutawassit fi Sharh' al-Awamil al-Mi'a (Supercommentaries by al-Sayyid al-Sharif on the Mutawassit or explanation of the hundred grammatical elements), 43 folios, 17 lines per page in naskh script in black and gold ink within a gold frame. Small illuminated frontispiece decorated with gilded palmettes on a blue background. Colophon dated to the end of Ramadan 873 / April 1469. Text incomplete at the end, although the colophon indicates that it is complete. Later Ottoman owners' marks at the beginning and end of the volume. Bound in garnet-red leather with stamped and gilt decoration. Old collection or inventory label no. 1130. Accidents, tears, possible missing pages, wormholes, stains, last page half cut, wear and restorations on the binding. 17.5 x 12 cm This text, dating from the period of the famous Ottoman sultan Mehmet II the Conqueror (1444-1446 and 1451-1481), is a commentary on the "hundred grammatical elements" by 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani.
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