Details

Subject(s)

• Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān 12th/13th cent—Khazrajīyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Metrics and rhythmics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Ṣidqī, Muṣṭafá, d. 1769 or 70 [Browse]

Related name

• صدقي، مصطفى [Browse]

Contains

• Khazrajī, ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān, 12th/13th cent. Khazrajīyah. [Browse]
• خزرجي، عبد الله بن عثمان. خزرجية [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Rāmizah al-shāfīyah fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qāfīyah, also known as al-Khazrājīyah, a treatise on prosody and versification by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUthmān al-Khazrajī (fl. 650/1252). According to the beginning of the text (fol. 6a, l. 2-3), this commentary is conceived as completing the commentary by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Sharīf al-Andalūsī al-Gharnaṭī al-Sabtī (d. 760/1359).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from tail of text block (repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover). The title appears on fol. 1a as: Sharḥ-i ʻArūḍ-i Khazrajīyah. The name of the author appears in the beginning of the text (fol. 5b).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small professional square naskh in black ink with use of red for commented text, key-words and re-inking. Thick light cream paper with pulp and laid and chain lines visible. The quires (mainly quinions) have catchword on the verso of each leaf. Table of abbreviations used in the text on fol. 1b. Fol. 2a-4b: Blank.
• Origin: Copy completed on 3 Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 897 [Feb. 3, 1492] by Yaḥyá ibn Sharf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḥātim ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻIzz al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Bakrī(?) ... al-Dharwī ... al-Shāfiʻī .. al-Azharī ... al-Burhānī (colophon, fol. 129b).
• Incipit: قال العبد الفقير من كل وجه الى الله مولاه الشاكر لما اولاه الراجي من فضله ستره ورحماه احمد بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد النقاوسى احسن الله عقباه الحمد لله الذى نور بالعلم القلوب والابصار واشرق فى سما الافكار من الانوار ... وبعد فان الشعر لما كان شعار الحكمة ودثارها وديوان العرب الذى خلدت فيه ماثرها واثارها ... [6أ] ... قال وللشعر ميزان تسمى عروضه بها النقص ... قلت عايذا بالله مستغنيا به مستمدا منه التوفيق الناظم حصر كلامه فى قصيدة فى مقدمة وثلاثة اركان
• Explicit: اقول انى اخترعت بل جمعت وقربت ولا انى اعربت بل بينت واعربت وكلام اهل العلم اقنفيت وبمناهم اهتديت والله العظيم الدى منّ عليّ بانشائه واعان على اتمامه ... وان يفعل ذلك كله باخواننا واهالينا واحبابنا وجميع المسلمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد ...والحمد لله على ما شرح ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العظيم رب ارحم رب استر والحمد لله رب العالمين

Binding note

Golden brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

From the library of Muṣtafá Ṣidqī (see seal and counter seal on fol. 5a, with mention of a prize). Several other ownership statements on the same folio, in the name of Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, dated 1172(?) H. [1758?] (partly in Arabic numerals, partly in abjad) ; ʻAbd al-Qādir ; Muḥammad al-ʻUrfī(?) ; Muḥammad Munīr. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3837
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 312 (10/1.Cmt. 11)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

شرح عروض خزرجية

Title on fol. 1a

• Sharḥ-i ʻArūḍ-i Khazrajīyah

OCLC

137240583

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