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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 76Lq [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

Abridgement of a commentary on al-Alfīyah, a versified treatise on grammar by Ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. 2a, l. 3-4).
• Inscription in Roman and Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "M. K. E. N°257 (121 [in Arabic numerals])".
• Layout: 21-23 lines per page.
• Description: Written in medium small script in black ink faded to brown, with larger script for headings, and some use of green ink. Cream paper with pulp visible. Fol. 1 is a later replacement on glazed European paper with watermark. Water damaged. Some leaves are repaired with loss of text on the edges. Last fol. particularly damaged.
• Origin: Copy completed in 880 H. (colophon, fol. 137b, unclear).
• Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام ... ابو محمد جمال الدين محمود بن احمد العينى ... الحمد لله حمدًا ناصعًا ضافيًا
• Explicit: ذي قررته ووصفته تلك الغنا بذاك عما طولا ضمنتها [---] اك وتجملا وانا الى رب العلي سبحانه في نفع حافظها مت[---] على خير الهداة وافضلا تمت

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather over paper pasteboards. Blind-stamped mandorla with two pendants on the vertical axis, and an outer frame made of several fillets. Rebacked, edges repaired. Paper pastedown.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, signed ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥājj Khaṭṭāb [---] (in red ink, dated 1282 H.) ; ʻAbd al-Khāliq al-Hindānī(?) ; Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad [---] (with seal impression) ; Muḥammad Qāsim, son of ʻAbd al-Bāqī (dated 1285 H.). Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 417
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 288/11

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

فوائد القلائد في مختصر شرح الشواهد

Title in Hitti, P. Garrett coll

• Fawāʼid al-qalāʼid fī mukhtaṣar Sharḥ al-Shawāhid

OCLC

83596348

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