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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah [Browse]

Summary note

Abridgement of a commentary on al-Alfīyah, a versified treatise on grammar by Ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274). The text is preceded on fol. 2a-4b by a commentary on the preamble of the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Physical description: lines per page. Text 1 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for the commented text, with 25 lines per page (185 x 125 mm.). The text is vocalized ; yāʾ for alif maqṣūrah, final yāʾ dotted. Text 2 written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for the commented text, with 27 lines per page (185 x 130 mm.). The commented text is vocalized; yăʾ for alif maqṣūrah ; final yāʾ dotted. Text 2 was collated on an autograph copy (see note on fol. 9a, margin). Fol. 64-75 are later replacements.
• Chiefly quinions ; the quires of Text 2 are numbered using Arabic ordinals (see "al-Thānī" on fol. 14a).
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Raqm 36". Inscription in Roman script in red pencil on fol. 1a: "86 AUT S".
• Origin: According to colophon, copy of Text 1 completed Jumādá I 870 [Dec. 1465 - Jan. 1466] (fol. 4b). Text 2 copied by Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī ibn Abī Bakr ibn Zayn al-Dīn, known as al-Zāwī, Thursday 21 Rabīʻ II [no year] (fol. 138a).
• Incipit Text 1 (fol. 2a): بسم ... يا لطيف قوله حمدا تقديره حمدت الله حمدا او احمد الله حمدا ... قوله ناصعا الى اخره صفات متوالية والناصع الخالص
• Explicit Text 1 (fol. 4b): ولا يلتفت اليها لحقارتها فافهم ذلك
• Incipit Text 2 (fol. 5b): بسم ... وبالله التوفيق ومنه الاعانة قال شيخنا الشيخ الامام ... ابو محمد بدر الدين محمود بن احمد العينى العيتابي الحنفي احيى الله تعالى سحايب فكره موات العلم والادب وبلغه في الدارين اعلى الرتبة حمدا ناصعا ضافيا
• Explicit Text 2 (fol. 138a): الفضل الوهوب المجزل قاله ابو النجم العجلاني ... من اجزل اذا عطا عطآ كثيرًا وهذا اخر ما احتصرناه من الشواهد

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Red leather for fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers are filled with blind- ad gold-tooling (gold almost completely wanting). A panel defined by a border consisting of fillets and a running pattern is filled with a geometrical pattern developing from a central star. Embossed leather doublure. Flaps are a later replacement. Rebacked.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2a-4b : Sharḥ Khuṭbat Mukhtaṣar Sharḥ al-Shawāhid al-musammá bi-Farāʾid al-qalāʾid fī sharḥ al-Shawāhid.
• 2. fol. 5b-138a : Farāʾid al-qalāʾid fī mukhtaṣar Sharḥ al-Shawāhid / al-ʻAynī.

Provenance

Waqf statement in the name of al-Mullā ʻUthmān al-Kurdī on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3572
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 288/11

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

• فرائد القلائد في مختصر شرح الشواهد
• Sharḥ Khuṭbat Farāʾid al-qalāʾid.
• شرح خطبة فرائد القلائد
• Sharḥ Khuṭbat Mukhtaṣar Sharḥ al-Shawāhid al-musammá bi-Farāʾid al-qalāʾid fī sharḥ al-Shawāhid.
• شرح خطبة مختصر شرح الشواهد المسمى بفرائد القلائد في شرح الشواهد

Title from beginning of text (fol. 5b, l. 21)

• Farāʾid al-qalāʾid fī mukhtaṣar Sharḥ al-Shawāhid

OCLC

238374064

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