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Subject(s)

• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah [Browse]
• ابن مالك، محمد بن عبد الله—الفية [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Waqf—Books—History—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Alfīyah, or al-Khulāṣah fī al-naḥw, by Ibn Mālik (d. 672/1273).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 26 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Marginal annotations (almost exclusively collation notes). Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines and pulp visible. Short fāʻidah on fol. 131b. Inscription in Western numerals in pencil on fol. (i)a: "552".
• Collation: Paper, fol. i + 131, ii ; i (later added fly-leaf; European paper) + 1¹⁰ (-1 at beginning of quire) 2-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰ (+2 at end of quire, fol. 130-131) + ii (later added fly-leaves; European paper) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "sādis ʻashar" on fol. 20a) ; catchwords on the recto of first five leaves and last leaf of each quire.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Mubārak ibn Aḥmad, known as Ibn al-Rūmīyah, and completed on 9 Muḥarram 782 [April 15, 1380] (fol. 131a). Collation statement in the name of ʻAlī ibn ...?, dated 7 Muḥarram 8(?) on the margin of fol. 131a.
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر الندبه هي ند المتعجع عليه او المتوجع منه
• Explicit: فقال فاحمد الله مصليا على محمد خير نبي ارسلا واله الغر الكرام البرره وصحبه المنتحبين الخيره

Binding note

Paper over paper pasteboards, with red leather spine and edges. Modern paper pastedowns.

Provenance

On fol. 1a: Erased ownership statement ; two waqf seals (hardly legible, 250 and 470 mm.), one apparently for the Madrasah al-Fatḥiyah(?). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3559
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 298 (4/II. Cmtare 2) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

شرح الالفية

Title in Mach, R. Yahuda

• Sharḥ al-Alfīyah

OCLC

217261679

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