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. 332H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on al-Kāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Title page has several pious inscriptions and a lengthy note on the text. Title on lower edge of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 93 + (2) ; catchwords ; pagination in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (anchor in circle with a star on top) ; MS in good condition, water staining through entire MS.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 972 (fol. 93b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة على محمد واله اجمعين. اما بعد فيقول العبد الضعيف الفقير الحاج بابا بن الشيخ ابراهيم
• Colophon: تم بعون الله تعالى تاريخ سنة 972

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather and paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 371.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 12.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 496².
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6573/4.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كافية معربي

Title on fol. 1a

• Kāfiyah muʻrabī

OCLC

1304517182

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