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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Zawāwī, Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī 1168-1231—Durrah al-Alfīyah [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Durrah al-Alfīyah of Ibn al-Muʻṭī (d. 628/1231), a treatise on grammar in verses.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink with use of red ; vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, glossy, hardly translucid ; frame-ruled. Chiefly quinions. Marginal annotations. Several inscriptions on fol.1a-2a, 119b, and on the pastedowns. Reading statements on the margin (see fol. 27a). Title on tail of text block. Inner margin worm-eaten.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 119 ; 1-11¹⁰ (first quire uncertain) 12¹⁰ (-1 at end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "Thānī kurrās" (see fol. 11a; cut off on some quires).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "30".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAbd al-Ṣamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Iṣfahānī in the last decade of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 676 [Sept. 1277] (fol. 119b).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر وتمم واعن بحمتك قال عبد الله الفقير اليه احمد بن الحسين بن احمد بن ابى المعالى بن منصو بن علي المعروف بابن الخباز حمه الله تعالى اما بعد حمد الله على ما افاض علينا من ملابس الاية ... فان عقد الدرة الالفية يعجز اهل العصر عن نظم نظيره

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and flap. The covers and flap have a similar blind-tooled outer border consisting of fillets. Green cloth and paper pastedowns. Broken; worn; upper covered detached.

Provenance

Waqf by al-Munlā ʻUthmān al-Kurdī (see inscription on fol. 2b-3a, upper margin). Ownership statement on fol. 2a in the name of Abū Bakr ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī, dated 745(?) H. Reading and ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻImād al-Dīn on the margin of the colophon (fol. 119b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3512
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 303 (5/1. Cmtre a)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

الغرة المخفية

Title in GAL

• al-Ghurrah al-makhfīyah

OCLC

212378047

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