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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]
• 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. 2a).
• Physical description: 31 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red and occasional blue ; yāʼ for alif maqṣūrah. Cream paper, soft, hardly translucid, with laid and chain lines, and pulp visible. Fol. 31-40 are later replacements. Fol. 1 and 218 are later additions (European paper with watermark -- crown surmounted by star and crescent). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, 2a, 216b, and 217b, including ownership statements, short texts, and a note mentioning the number of quires in the copy. The text has been collated (see inscription on fol. 216a, left margin). Some quires (mainly quinions) numbered using Arabic ordinals ; catchwords on the verso of some leaves. Stained with water ; loose leaves.
• Inscription in Arabic script in red pencil on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 18 al-Mawṣil".
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by Muḥammad Ibn al-shaykh ʻAlī Ibn Sulaymān al-Turkmānī (Turkumānī)... al-Shāfiʻī, muʼaddib al-aṭfāl in ...?, and completed on Wednesday 11 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 807(?) [Sept. 27, 1404] (fol. 216a).
• Copyist: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Turkmānī al-Shāfiʻī.
• Incipit: بسم ... رب يسر واختم بخير يا كريم قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة فريد دهره ووحيد عصره وشيخ وقته الفقيه المقري النحوي ابو علي بدر الدين حسن ابن ام قاسم المالكي المذهب رحمه الله تعالى الحمد لله والشكر له وصلاته على اشرف نبي ارسله ... وبعد فهذا توضيح لمقاصد الفية ابن مالك يحلو معانيها على طلابها ... ص قال محمد هو ابن مالك احمد الله خير مالك ش قال فعل ماض واوي العين مفتوحها
• Explicit: فقال فاحمد الله مصليا على محمد خير نبي ارسلا واله الغر الكرام البرره وصحبه المنتحبين الخيره

Binding note

Quarter bound with flap in paper and brown leather. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 1a, inclusing one in the name of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá Efendi ... (with seal), and one in the name of Majdī Efendi ibn Sulaymān Efendi ... zade (with seal). Several ownership statements on fol. 2a, including one with name erased, dated 885 H. ; one dated 962 H. ; one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥanafī, dated 977 H. ; one in the name of Maḥmūd ibn Tāj al-Dīn al-Anṣārī al-Khazrajī, dated 1036 H. ; one in the name of Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-ASṬWātī al-Shāfiʻī al-Azharī, dated 1040 H. Ownership statement on fol. 216b. 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

217276854

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