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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah al-shāfiyah [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of the second part of a gloss on a commentary by Ibn Mālik on his al-Kāfiyah al-shāfiyah, on grammar. Ibn Mālik's commentary is entitled al-Wāfiyah in GAL (SI, 526/III). A note on fol. 1a indicates that this copy was made on an autograph copy. It is followed by another note dated 19 Rajab 1174 [Feb. 24, 1761], mentioning that the text was collated on an autograph copy, and that the author completed his work on the 14th day before the end of Ṣafar 816 [May 1413].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 25 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines (in groups of two and three) visible. Occasional marginal annotation, mainly collation notes. Catchword on the last verso of each quire ; traces of quire numbering on some leaves (see fol. 250a, 260a). The pages have been trimmed so that part of the marginalia is lost. A few leaves stained with water. A few leaves are badly damaged and crudely repaired, with loss of text (see fol. 198). Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits fol. 243).
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Muqrī al-Miṣrī al-Qādirī, known as Ibn al-Amshāṭī, from an autograph copy ("min aṣl yusawwiduhu al-muṣannif"), on 17 Ramaḍān 820 [Oct. 28, 1417] (fol. 285a-b, followed by verses of poetry).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر واعن بلطفك يا كريم باب البدل قال العلم البدل لغة العوض تقول خذ هذا بدلا عن هذا ... ص التابع المقصود بالحكم بلا واسطة هو المسمى بدلا ش صدرت باب البدل بالتابع لانه يعم المحدود وشركاه
• Explicit: فعدل عن القياس الى السماع وقد جعلت نظم هذا الباب مكملا ابواب ذا الكتاب فالحمد لله على تكمله ميسرًا ... وانعم باطنه وظاهره ... واصحابه والتابعين لهم بالاحسان الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدي لو لا ان هدانا الله

Binding note

Modern library binding.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3576
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 526/III.Cmt. ; SII, 71 (8/4)

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• al-Niṣf al-thānī kāmilan min Sharḥ Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah lil-ʻallāmah Maḥmūd Ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Khaṭīb al-Dahshah sammāhā [---?] al-Ḥāshiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah
• النصف الثاني كاملا من شرح شرح الكافية للعلامة محمود ابن احمد بن محمد ابن خطيب الدهشة سماها [؟] الحاشية في شرح الكافية
• Sharḥ Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah
• شرح شرح الكافية
• Ḥāshiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah
• حاشية في شرح الكافية

OCLC

216931648

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