Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Morphology—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Shāfiyah [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Shāfiyah, a short treatise on morphology by ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 150a).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Ḥāshiyah and annotations by several hands on the margin. Title on tail of text block. Several inscriptions, including a description of contents in Ottoman Turkish, on the pastedown of the upper cover. Foliation using Arabic numerals in black ink.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 152 ; 1-19⁸, ii (later added fly-leaves (European paper; fol. 151-152 in the modern foliation) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals by the same hand as the foliation.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Ṣarf 7". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "807 Ḥ".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Saʻd ibn Iskandar al-Ṭabarī in Sabzawār, who completed his work (tanmīq) on a Monday in the middle of Muḥarram 849 [April 1445] (fol. 150a).
• Copyist: Saʻd ibn Iskandar al-Ṭabarī.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتى ربنا افرغ علينا صبرا وثبت اقدامنا ... اما بعد فيقول المولى المعظّم والامام الاعظم الغنى احمد بن الحسين الچارپردى لما كان كتاب التصريف الذى صنفه الفاضل المحقق والعالم المدقق علامة الورى جمال الدين ابو عمر وعثمان بن الحاجب رفعه الله مكانا مع صغر حجمه ووجازة لفظه مشتملا على فوائد شريفة ... [2ب] ... قوله التصريف لما كان قوله علم شاملا للمقصود وغير المقصود
• Explicit: بمعناها فى الغاية والانتهاء والله اعلم

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Both covers have a deep stamped scalloped oblong central piece, filled with a floral arabesque. Small stamp outlined in gold on the envelope flap, with traces of an outer border consisting of gilt fillets. Spine and fore-edge flap repaired. Yellow paper pastedowns. Damaged.

Provenance

Reading statement in the name of Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ...?, dated end of Rajab 881 [1476] (margin of colophon, fol. 150a). From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 21 R[ajab] [12]79 on fol. 1a). Two impressions of a seal on fol. 1a (repeated on fol. 2a-5a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3545
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, 305/II. Cmtre 4 ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• شرح شافيه چارپاردي
• چارپاردي على الشافية

Title in inscription on fol. 1a

• Sharḥ-i Shāfiyah-ʼi Chārpārdī

Title on tail of text block

• Chārpārdī ʻalá al-Shāfiyah

OCLC

213385878

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...