Details

Subject(s)

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

Contains

• Ījī, ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad, d. 1355? Risālah al-waḍʻīyah. [Browse]
• ايجي، عضد الدين عبد الرحمن بن احمد. رسالة الوضعية. [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 from fol. 7a. Full title at the beginning of the text on fol. 7b.
• Copy completed on the 1st of Muḥarram 1022 (1613) -- colophon (fol. 232a).
• 19 lines per page. Written in medium small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Foliation in red ink in Arabic numerals and in pencil in Western numerals. Glazed European paper.
• Ms. additions: substantial additions before and after the main text, most of them on the same subject and in the same hand as the main text, and include:
• 1. text on fol. 1b, whose headings start with "ḥamd lughawī", "shukr lughawī" etc. and end with "al-thanāʾ bi-al-ʻaks";
• 2. text on ff. 2b-3a, entitled "Baḥth istithnāʾ wa-mufarragh", preceeded by several lines of verse in Ottoman;
• 3. text on fol. 3b on "al-juhl al-murakkab", accompanied by other short paragraphs on the same subject;
• 4. fol. 4a has a chronogram of Jāmī's death in Persian;
• 5. ff. 4b-5b have a table of contents and an untitled text commenting on Jāmī's work (mainly on the contents of the first few pages); some of it on fol. 5b illegible due to water damage;
• 5. ff. 6a-7a and ff. 232b-233a have numerous short inscriptions, again on language-related subjects, some of it in different hands, and some are illegible due to water damage;
• 6. ff. 234a-234b: Risālah-ʾi waḍʻīyah / li-Mūlá ʻAḍud al-Millah wa-al-Dīn [ʻAḍud al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ījī (d. 1355?)], in a later hand.
• 7. fol. 236b has a drawing of a protective talisman with an explanation in Ottoman on how to make it and its usage.
• Incipit: الحمد لوليه ... اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافية فى حل 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 وظايف عبوديته للاعراض عن مطالبة الاعواض والاغراض ضحوة السبت الحادى عشر من رمضان المنتظم فى سلك شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائة من الهجرة النبوية عليه افضل التحية

Binding note

Brown leather with blind fillets on borders and blind stamped mandorlas in the centre of upper and lower covers. spine repaired in different leather blind tooled with horizontal fillets and foliage roll around the edges. Front endleaves in marbled, and back endleaves in purple paper. Label on upper cover "Naḥw awwal 68".

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.

Other title(s)

• Fawāʾid wāfīyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfīyah.
• فوائد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية.
• Risālah-ʾi waḍʻīyah
• رسالۀ وضعية
• Risālat al-waḍʻ
• رسالة الوضع
• Risālah fī al-waḍʻ
• رسالة في الوضع

OCLC

123499108

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