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Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

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 the beginning of the text on fol. 8b.
• Copied in the last ten days of Ṣafar 1020 (1611) -- colophon (fol. 208a).
• 21 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Text on ff. 8b and 9a within a gold leaf frame outlined in black ink. The rest of the text within a single line frame outlined in dark red ink. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals and in pencil in Western numerals. Marginal annotations throughout, in same hand to that of the main text. Several inscriptions in later hands in Arabic and Ottoman on front flyleaves (ff. 1-3). Ff. 4b-7a have a table of contents, outlined in red ink. Obliterated statement and two seals at the end of colophon on fol. 208a.
• Incipit: الحمد لوليه ... وبعد فهذه فوايد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية للعلامة المشتهر فى المشارق والمغارب الشيخ ابن الحاجب
• Explicit: قد استراح من مكد الانتهاض لنقل هذا الشرح من السواد الى البياض العبد الفقير عبد الرحمن الجامى وفقه الله سبحانه فى ظايف عبوديته للاعراض من مطالبة الاعواض والاغراض ضحوة السبت الحادى عشر من رمضان المنظم فى سلك شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمأة

Binding note

Brown leather with envelope flap. Blind tooled roll and fillets around borders and stamped mandorlas in the centre of upper and lower covers, with evidence of gold painting over the tooling which is now faded. Similar design on the envelope flap, which is a replacement in dark burgundy leather and the gold on the tooling is still intact. Fore-edge flap is also repaired in dark burgundy leather. Lining to the fore-edge flap in same leather. Lining to the envelope flap and endleaves in light blue paper. Label on upper cover "Naḥw 26".

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)

Other format(s)

Microfilm available for reproduction.

OCLC

123499105

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