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. 331H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Kāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 179a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. A few inscriptions on the folios after the colophon, one dated 1041.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 179 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (anchor, countermark) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Friday end of Jumādá I 1001 by ʻUthmān ibn ʻAlī (fol. 179a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نحمد الله نحو الائه الوافية ونشکره لنوال نعمائه الکافية
• Colophon: وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذا الکتاب في اواخر جمادى الاولى في ليلة الجمعة في ثلث الليل کتبه العبد الضعيف المحتاج الى رحمة الله تعى [تعالى] هذا کتاب هندي صاحب ومالك طالب العلم عثمان بن علي غفرالله له ولوالديه سنة احد [ى و] الف

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and blue and red marbled paper.

Provenance

• Ownership signature Ibrāhīm Muḥammad Afandī, and an erased signature (fol. 1a).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 370.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 9, 18.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 73, 88.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6584/5.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4054.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1304516996

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