Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New York (State)—New York [Browse]

Former owner

• Hull, Helen R. (Helen Rose), 1888-1971 [Browse]

Related name

• Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) [Browse]

Summary note

Book on Arabic grammar.

Notes

• Decoration: Blue and gold headpiece (f. 1v); rubrications in red; border-rules and page-opening frame-rule in red.
• Four stamps and an owner's note, mostly scrubbed (f. 1r); notations and calculations in ink (flyleaves i-iii at front of book).
• Layout: 7 long lines; border-ruled.
• Manuscript codex.
• Origin: Copy completed at the end of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 988 A.H. (f. 90v).
• Script: Written in nastaʻlīq, with strong elements of naskh in black ink; pointed.
• Shelfmark: MS Or 448.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

Location of originals

• Original Columbia, Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• OPenn University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Source of description

Item cataloged from digital facsimile and existing description.

Binding note

Dark brown leather with gilded central mandorla.

Language note

Arabic.

Source acquisition

Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover).

Other format(s)

Also available as a digital facsimile.

OCLC

1145170406

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