Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Shāfiyah [Browse]
• ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر—شافية [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—History—14th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on al-Shāfiyah, a treatise on grammar by ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: 17 lines per page (+ last words of each page written on the left side of line 18). Written in medium small round naskh in black ink with use of red. The last quire is written in larger script, with 14 lines per page. Dark cream paper, with regular laid lines visible. Marginal annotations (collation notes and glosses). Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including notes mentioning dates of birth and death and ownership statements. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals (omits a leaf between fol. 78 and 79).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 209, i ; 1⁸ (-1, at begining of quire) 2-19⁸ 20⁶ 21-26⁸ 27⁴ i (fly-leaf; European paper) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic numerals (see "2" on fol. 8a).
• Inscriptions on the pastedown of upper cover: "A 132" (in Roman script, on a label; repeated on a spine label) ; "218 Bl." (in Roman script) ; "Raqm 194" (in Arabic script, repeated on fol. 1a).
• Origin: According to colophon, copy completed on the night of Thursday 10 Jumādá al-Ūlá 770 [Dec. 21, 1368] (fol. 207b).
• Incipit: بسم ... رب تمم بالخير نحمدك يا من بيده الخير والجود وليس فى الحقيقة غيره بموجود ونصلى ... اما بعد فيقول المولى المعظّم الامام الاعظم العالم الفاضل الكامل ... احمد بن الحسن الجاربردى لما كان كتاب التصريف الذي صنفه الفاضل المحقق ... جمال الدين ابو عمر وعثمان ابن الحاجب ... مع صغر حجمه ووجازة نظمه مشتملا على فوايد شريفة ... [3أ] ... قوله التصريف لما كان قوله علم شاملا للمقصود وغير المقصود
• Explicit: لانها بمعناها فى الغاية والانتهاء

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards, with flap. Upper and lower covers have a central blind-stamped scalloped mandorla and an outer border consisting of two blind fillets. Similar border on the fore-edge flap and envelope flap, with small stamp on its point. paper pastedowns. Disbound.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar al-mulaqqab bi-al-Ṣaḥābī on fol. 1a and 207b (with "ibn Ibrāhīm" added in a note). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3545
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, 305/II. Cmtre 4 ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ al-Taṣrīf
• شرح التصريف

OCLC

224494029

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