Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Copyist

• Sulamī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad [Browse]

Related name

• سلمي، محمد بن محمد [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Rosettes (motifs)—Islamic Empire—14th century [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a versified treatise on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh (professional hand) in black ink ; the text is vocalized. Headings written in thulth in gold outlined in black. The title on title page is written in gold outlined in black, with three rosettes in gold outlined in black with six small dots in black and six radiating lines in black. Thick soft cream paper, hardly translucid, with lines visible on some leaves ; frame-ruled. Ḥāshiyah on the margin, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Fol. i and ii are later added fly-leaves with inscriptions. Quinions.
• Certificate of reading by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar ibn ʻAlī ibn Ḍamān ... for Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ... Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ... Sharaf al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥusayn ʻAlī ... al-Yūsī al-Ḥanbalī, dated Sunday, 23 Ṣafar 748 [June 1347], on fol. 43b. This certificate also mentions other texts read by al-Yūsī.
• Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "10". Inscription in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Numrah 19".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Sulamī al-Shāfiʻī, who completed his work on 14 Ramaḍān 732 [June 9, 1332] (fol. 43a).
• Incipit: بسم ... وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل قال الشيخ الامام العالم الاوحد الكامل المتقن المحق المحقق فريد دهره وحيد عصره جمال الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن عبد الله ابن عبد الله بن مالك الطائى الجيانى رحمه الله تعالى ورضى عنه قال محمد هو ابن مالك احمد ربى الله خير مالك
• Explicit: وآله الغرّ الكرام البرره وصحبه المنتجبين الخيره اخرها والحمد لله وحده

Binding note

Half bound in red leather and marbled paper, with flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3554
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 298 (4/II) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• al-Khulāṣah fī al-naḥw
• الخلاصة في النحو

OCLC

213498252

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