Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 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. 325H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Some calculations and a few lines of poetry on the title page. Between folios 129 and 130 several folios are missing.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 133 + (1) ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق بمطالعة جماله
• Ending: والله اعلم بالعواب

Binding note

Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Provenance

• Ownership signature: Ḥāshim Afandī Nihādī Afandī (fol. 133b).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 363.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1303006061

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