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. 58L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Watermarks [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on al-Kāfiyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from preface (fol.1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. First 20 folios heavily annotated. Title also appears on upper pastedown. Inscriptions on upper pastedown and fol. 1a. MS incomplete at the end. "Jāmī" appears on head of text block.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 167 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (cross; coat-of-arms?) ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: Probably from XVIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه وعلى آله واصحابه المتأدبين بادابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافية بحل مشکلات الکافية للعلامة المشتهر فى المشارق والمغارب الشيخ ابن الحاجب ...
• Ending: ... فلانه کان ضميرا مستترا فلما حذف

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and brown paper. Headbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 372.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 10.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6575/6.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340422181

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