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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—13th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related record(s)

• Kitāb al-Iʻtiḍād fī al-farq bayna al-ẓāʼ wa-al-ḍād.
• Kitāb Tuḥfat al-mawdūd fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd mashrūḥan / mimmā iʻtaná bi-jamʻihi al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Malik al-Ṭāʼī al-Jayyānī ghafara Allāhu lahu.
• Kitāb al-Taʻrīf fī ḍarūrī al-taṣrīf / taṣnīf al-Shaykh al-imām al-ʻallāmah Jamāl al-Dīn Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Malik ghafara Allāhu lahu.

Summary note

Collection of three short treatises, two versified, on questions of grammar, with a commentary by the author.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink (faded to brown) ; larger script for text commented. The text is entirely vocalized. Thick cream paper, with thick laid lines and pulp visible. Water damage affecting the inner margin, crudely repaired on some leaves, with loss of text.
• Origin: According to a note on fol. 37b, apparently by the same hand as the main text, the copy was completed in 695 H.

Binding note

The unbound quires are placed in a binding consisting of orange and black decorated paper pasted on paper boards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Red leather spine and fore-edge flap. Re-used paper pastedowns.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1a-18b: Kitāb al-Iʻtiḍād fī al-farq bayna al-ẓāʼ wa-al-ḍād / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik.
• 2. fol. 18b-19a: Kitāb al-Taʻrīf fī ḍarūrī al-taṣrīf / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik.
• 3. fol. 19a-37b: Kitāb Tuḥfat al-mawdūd fī al-maqṣūr wa-al-mamdūd mashrūḥan / Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik.

Provenance

• Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, two obliterated or illegible, a third one in the name of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Shaʻbān, dated 985 H. [1577 or 8].
• Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 311, 3581

OCLC

151191302

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