Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhā Faṣl maʻqūd fī maʻānī ʻawāmil al-iʻrāb lil-marḥūm al-Muṭrān Jirmānūs هذا فصل معقود في معاني عوامل الاعراب للمرحوم المطران جرمانوس

Title

• Hādhā Faṣl maʻqūd fī maʻānī ʻawāmil al-iʻrāb lil-marḥūm al-Muṭrān Jirmānūs

Other Title

• هذا فصل معقود في معاني عوامل الاعراب للمرحوم المطران جرمانوس

Summary

• This manuscript is a guide for Christian students of the Arabic language. It was written by Jirmanus Farhat (circa 1670-1732), a prominent Maronite clergyman, and copied after his death for use as a school text. The Lebanese Maronite Church was and remains united with the Roman Catholic Church. However, there was tension in the church, at some times more acute than others, over matters of "Vaticanization" of language and form of worship. Farhat took a leading part in these debates, and helped to advance the use of better Arabic alongside Syriac for ecclesiastical and personal use. He was a writer of correct and elegant Arabic and a forerunner of the Maronite initiative in the 19th century Arabic revival. The manuscript is more an elementary text than a sophisticated grammar. It is crisply written and contains plentiful examples, often culled from the Bible, which make it a handy guide for teachers and students. It is arranged according to the Arabic alphabet, each letter representing a "talking point" for teachers. Parts of speech, interjections, exclamations, and interrogatives are explained with the proper vowels required for each. These are most often demonstrated by example rather than by grammatical rule. Farhat was elevated to metropolitan bishop of the wealthy diocese of Aleppo, but not before he and his secular patrons among Maronite families survived an attempt to excommunicate him. The manuscript was "copied and corrected, to the extent possible," by Lawandirus Salim, after which it passed through the hands of several owners whose names appear on the first and last pages. World Digital Library.
• Work on Arabic grammar

Names

• Farḥāt, Jirmānūs, 1670 or 1671-1732 or 1733
• Giarue, Raffaele, 1799-1892, former owner
• Sālim, Lāwandīrus, scribe

Created / Published

• 7 Tishrīn al-thānī 1743 [7 Sept. 1743]

Headings

• -  Arabic language--Grammar
• -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

• -  "al-Shammas Lāwandīrus Sālim"--Colophon.
• -  Caption title.
• -  Contemporary morocco binding; embossed medallions front and back.
• -  Copied in Syria?
• -  Folio 1b-75a.
• -  Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript, SM-34.
• -  Manuscript.
• -  Naskhī script; 16 lines in written area 12 x 5.8 cm.
• -  Polished Western laid paper; with no visible chain lines or water-marks; black ink with rubrication; catch-words on rectos.
• -  Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʻArabīyah fī Maktabat al-Kūnghris, p. 28
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
• -  Arabic.
• -  [Source of acquisition]
• -  Colophon: قوبل وصح على قدر الامكان. وذلك بتاريخ ٧ تشرين الثاني بيد مالكه وناسخه الشماس لاونديرس سالم سنة ١٧٤٣
• -  Folio 2b, first section: قد اقتناه من ماله لنفسه الخوري رافاييل جروه الحلبي السرياني وذلك في مدينة رومية سنة ١٨٦٦; D. Raffaele Giarue Curato.
• -  Incipit: فصل الحروف المبتدأه بحرف الالف

Medium

• 2, 75, 2 leaves (16 lines) bound : paper ; 15.8 x 10.2 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

• PJ6101 .F33 1743

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/amedscd.2013415546
• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.11224

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2013415546

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2013415546

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