Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]

Summary note

Acephalous copy of a commentary on al-Kāfīyah fī naḥw, a treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preamble of text (fol. 1a, l. 1).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible ; friable. Uneven leaves. Ḥāshiyah on the margin, between the lines of the main text, and on small pieces of paper pasted between the leaves. Quaternions ; catchword on the verso of each leaf. Wear ; holes on the margin. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (blank between fol. 186 and 187).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Naḥw thānī 30". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1321/2 Ḥ".
• Origin: Copy (taḥrīr) completed in 866 H. by ʻAbd al-Ṣabūr ibn Mawlānā Zāhid ibn Amīr (fol. 217a ; followed by verses of poetry in Persian).
• Copyist: ʻAbd al-Ṣabūr ibn Zāhid ibn Amīr.
• Beginning as extant: \\ لاولى الالباب وسميته بالوافية فى شرح كتاب الكافية لكونه وافيا لحل الفاظه ... قوله الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد اعلم ان معرفة هذا الحد موقوفة على معرفة اللفظ
• Explicit: فانك اذا قلت فى يا زيدون اضربن اضربوا فى الوقف وفى يا امراة اضربن اضربى فى الوقف لم يعلم انه بدل عن النون المحذوف الممدود وليكن اخر الكلام فى هذا الكتاب

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. The covers are similarly blind tooled with a central panel consisting of a mandorla with pendants on the vertical axis on a ground left plain inscrbed within a large border consisting of fillets, guilloches and running patterns. Leather doublure. Wear ; damaged.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3518
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 304/8b ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

213356714

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