[فوائد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية]

[Fawāʾid wāfīyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfīyah]

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1808]
Description
290 leaves : paper ; 212 x 166 (125 x 70) mm. bound to 218 x 175 mm.

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    Summary note
    Jāmī's commentary on ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib's grammar book, Kitāb al-Kāfīyah. The work was written for his son Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn and was completed on Saturday, the 11th of Ramaḍān 897 (1492).
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title supplied by the cataloger.
    • Ms. incomplete: lacks a substantial amount at the start, some 100 leaves or so.
    • Copied in the village of Kūshar [Kuşar?; in Turkey?], in the madrasah of ʻImād al-Dīn ʻAbbās bin ʻAbd al-Rashīd, and completed on the 12th of Ramaḍān 1223 (1808) -- colophon (fol. 289b).
    • 10 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in Arabic numerals in black ink, faded, starts on fol. 6. Foliation in Western numerals in pencil. Glazed blue paper with visible watermarks. Marginal annotations in a later hand throughout. Ff. 1-4 and 290a-290b have various short texts on language-related subjects in the same hand as the marginal annotations. Fol. 2a has a table of contents in red ink in the same later hand. Both pastedowns have a number of short inscriptions, a couple of them dated (19th century).
    • Incipit (as extant): هذا حم اوحمك رايت حما اوحمك ومررت بحم اوحمك ومثل خب خباء بهمزة فيقال هذا حماء او حماءك
    • Explicit: قد استراح من مكد الانتهاض لنقل هذا الشرح من السواد الى الابياض العبد الفقير عبد الرحمن الجامى وفقه الله سبحانه فى وظايف عبوديته للاعراض من مطالبة الاعواض وللاعراض ضحوة السبت الحادى عشر من رمضان المنتظم فى سلك شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائة من الهجرة النبوية
    Binding note
    Brown leather. Spine repaired in two different types of brown leather with visible stiching on the inside of the covers. Pastedowns in the same blue paper.
    Language note
    Arabic.
    Provenance
    Originally acquired by Robert Garrett from Abraham Shalom Yahuda ; 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 3528
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 369 (cmt. 13)
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 533 (13)
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    Microfilm available for reproduction.
    OCLC
    123499112
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