Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—History—13th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Waqf—Books—History—Sources [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Slipcases—Islamic empire [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a short versified treatise on grammar.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a (later hand).
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Fol. 1 is a later addition (European paper). Fol. 2 consists of the same paper pasted on the recto of an original leaf. The text has been collated. Ḥāshiyah on the margin. Note mentioning a price on fol. 1a. Wear ; stained with water ; a few leaves detached.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 60 ; i (later added leaf ; European paper) 1-5¹⁰ 6¹⁰ (-1 at end of quire) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals, in the form "thāniyah" (see fol. 12a) ; marks indicate the bifolio at the centre of each quire ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Origin: According to colophon, copied by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmrān in Muḥarram 730 [Oct.-Nov. 1329] (fol. 60b, followed by verses of poetry).
• Incipit: بسم ... وعليه اتوكل وبه استعين قال ابن مالك محمد وقد نوى افادة بما فيه اجتهد
• Explicit: لاله منها صلوة وافرة وانعم باطنه وظاهره تمت الكافية الشافية والحمد لله وصلواته على سيدنا محمد واله

Binding note

Sewed quires in slip-case in marbled paper and golden brown leather.

Provenance

Two ownership statements (one in the name of Muḥammad, qāḍī in Qusṭanṭinīyah) and one large waqf-seal in the name of al-Mawlá Muḥammad ibn Ḥusām al-Dīn, known as ... Çelebi zade, dated 1038 H. on fol. 1a. Impression of the same waqf-seal throughout. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3575
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 300/III

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

الكافية الشافية

Title in colophon (fol. 60b)

• al-Kāfiyah al-shāfiyah

Title from inscription on fol. 1a (later hand)

• Kitāb al-Kāfiyah li-Ibn Mālik

OCLC

217288015

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