Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar [Browse]
• Arabic language—Syntax [Browse]

Donor

• Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923 [Browse]

Former owner

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning [Browse]

Summary note

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

• A damaged leaf containing text and marginal notes from an unrelated manuscript is laid inches.
• Binding: Brown leather over pasteboard (Type III); rebacked with red spine and edges; blind stamped central mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis.
• 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.
• Decoration: Rubrications and overlining in red ink.
• Item cataloged from digitized facsimile and existing description.
• Layout: Written in 26 long lines.
• Ms. codex.
• Origin: The item is undated; perhaps copied in the 16th century.
• Script: Written in naskh script; pointed, partially vocalized.
• Title from added title (f. 1r).

Location of originals

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

Language note

Arabic.

Provenance

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

Source acquisition

Gift of Mayer Sulzberger to the library of the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate inside front cover), possibly in 1912 (pencil note, first flyleaf recto).

OCLC

954274745

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