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Subject(s)

• Khawwāṣ, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād 1378?-1454—Kāfī fī al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī [Browse]
• Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Autographs (manuscripts)—Islamic countries—17th century [Browse]

Summary note

Autograph copy of a commentary on al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Qināʼī (al-Khawwās, d. 858/1454).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).
• 21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black and red ink. European glazed paper. Occasional notes on the margins (mostly corrections). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 49: blank. On fol. 48b: note dated 1125 H. [1713].
• On fol. (i)a: Inscription in red pencil using Arabic numerals, reading "295".
• Copied in a clean copy ("min al-sawād ilá al-bayāḍ") by Khalīl ibn Walī ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥanafī on Wednesday 9 Shaʻbān 1103 (colophon, fol. 48b).
• Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله ... الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... خليل بن ولي بن جعفر الحنفى غفر الله ... هذا شرح لطيف لمتن الكافي في علمي العروض والقوافى للعلامة ... القنائى الشافعى ... يُبيّن معَانيها وتحل مباينه مفيداً للاداني والاعالي
• Explicit: حتى تستوى والشاذي الاذي والربع جمع رباع وهو الذي يلقى ثنيته(؟) والسّحق الذي يسحق العداوي يبعده وهذا هو الذي ذكرناه هنا اخر ما اردنا ايراده فى هذا المولف والله تعالى الهادي الى الصوّاب واليه المرجع والماب

Binding note

Blue marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Brown leather spine, fore-edge flap and edges. Orange paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3848
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 27 (15/1, cmt. 2)
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 22 (15/1, cmt. 2)

Other title(s)

شرح الكافي في علمي العروض والقوافي بل المورد الصافي [في] شرح الكافي

Title on title page (fol. (i)a)

• Sharḥ al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī bal al-Mawrid al-ṣāfī sharḥ al-Kāfī

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• al-Mawrid al-ṣāfī fī sharḥ al-Kāfī

OCLC

68967245

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