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Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah [Browse]
• Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 323H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Kāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 2b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The first nine folios are by a different hand. Following the colophon and on the next two folios are numerous additions and inscriptions including the record of the death of Sulaymān, lines of poetry to Abū Nawwās, and a proverb.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 167 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in black and red ; MS in fair condition; several folios are mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه [نستعين] احمد الله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق بمطالعة جماله
• Colophon: اخر الکلام في هذا الکتاب والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد واله الجمعين

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped and blind-tooled central design with decorative stamped and tooled edging. Covers are worm-eaten.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Ḥājjī Muṣ̄allī (front pastedown), Muḥammad ibn Murād (fol. 1a), Khalīl ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 1b), Ḥusayn ibn Nabī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad with his seal impression, Rāzī, Muḥammad ibn Ramaḍān, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm, Walī ibn Sulaymān (fol. 2a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 361.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 7.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6565/6.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 946.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 917-9.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب المتوسط

Title in later hand on fol. 1a

• Kitāb al-Mutawassiṭ

OCLC

1303006016

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