Details

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. 324H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥājib's al-Kāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 2a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Folios 1-3 are by one hand, 4-11 are by another, 55-64 are by a third hand while the bulk of the MS, namely 12-54 and 65-123, are by a fourth hand. MS is incomplete at the end.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 123 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 18-21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and other scripts ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق يمطالعة واشكر بجزيل

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped central square motif and decorative blind-tooled edging.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Waqf in the name of Ḥājjī ʻUmar Aghā.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 362.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1303005874

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