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Subject(s)

• Ibn Sharaf Shāh, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad 1247 or 1248-1315 or 1316—Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah [Browse]
• 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. 327H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Wāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 2b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and a prayer (fol. 2a). Title on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (anchor, roman-alphabet countermark with clover between initials) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. The last folio is trimmed and part of the colophon is missing.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين رب تمم بالخير لك الحمد يا من صرف قلوبنا نحو المعاني والبيان
• Colophon: ولنختم الکلام بهذه الاية الشريفة ونحمد الله اولا واخرا على شرفنا بالوصل ان الاتمام وتفضل علينا بشير الاختتام انه وياء الانعام والموصل الى المرام وجد القلم فراغا عن سکب عبراته على وجود الصحفات [الصفحات] وسلب وجناته نجمش الناطقات تأريخ

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and red and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Shihāb al-Dīn with his seal impression, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad Afandī ? (fol. 1a).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 366.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 8.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6567.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4040.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 713.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1304506333

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