Acephalous copy of a commentary on al-Kāfīyah fī naḥw, a treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib. The text is followed on fol. 147b-148a by a short text on the merits of the days of the month, entitled "Kitāb dhikr al-ayyām".
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Several inscriptions in Arabic and in Persian on the margins of the colophon (fol. 146b), on fol. 147a and 148b, and on the pastedowns. Inscription in Roman script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "M. X. N°8".
Layout: 20 lines per page.
Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red. Soft dark cream paper with laid lines visible. Irregular size. Ḥāshiyah on the margins.
Origin: Copy completed on 10 Ṣafar 817 by Ibn Maqṣūd Mazīd al-Kahzāwī (colophon, fol. 146b).
Beginning as extant: سن ومعنى المعتورة المتداولة يقال اعتور والشيء اذا تداولوه قوله [--] انواع رفع ونصب وجرّ اى انواع الاعراب ... قوله فالرفع علم الفاعلية الى اخره انما قال الرفع علم الفاعلية ولم يقل علم الفاعل لانه ليس علماً للفاعل فقط
Explicit: فانك اذا قلت فى يا زيدون اضربن اضربوا فى الوقف وفى يا امراة اضربن اضربي فى الوقف لم يُعلم انه يدل عن النون المحذوفة المردودة تم الكتاب
Incipit Kitāb dhikr al-ayyām (fol. 177b): روى عن جابر بن عبد الله رضى الله عنه انه قال قال رسول الله ... الاول من الهلال خلف الله تع فيه آدم عليه السلام وهو يوم مبارك
Explicit Kitāb dhikr al-ayyām (fol. 178a): واليوم الثلثون ولد فيه اسماعيل بن ابراهيم عليهما السلام بع واشترى واغرس وازرع ومن ولد فيه يكون صالحا مرتفعا ومن مرض فيه يبراء سريعا ان شاء الله تمت الكتاب بعون الله تع
Binding note
Type III (without flap) binding in yellow paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Spine and edges of the covers in cloth. Paper pasteboards.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 364
Other format(s)
Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
Kitāb dhikr al-ayyām.
كتاب ذكر الايام
OCLC
83818860
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