Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan Sūrat al-Fātiḥah—Commentaries—Early works to 1800 [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. 333H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on al-Kāfiyah. The work commences with the exegesis and the grammatical analysis of the Fātiḥah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On title page, inside of front cover, and final flyleaf occur several statements about al-Kāfiyah and repetitions of the title.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 210 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 22 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining in red ; a number of folios are tinted yellow ; watermarks (circle with a bird on a mound) ; MS in good condition. MS is rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي رفع السموات بغير عماد
• Colophon: وقد تم ما في هذا الشرح من الکلام بتوفيق الکريم العلام ... ربنا اغفر لنا ولا خواننا الذين سبقونا بالايمان ولا تجعل في قلوبنا غلا للذين امنوا ربنا انك رؤف [رؤوف] رحيم

Binding note

Type II (with flap) in brown leather and marbled paper. Blind-tooled lines on spine. Endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signature for Ḥasan al-Kamālī[?] (fol. 210a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 382.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 12.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 24.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• افصاح في شرح الکافية.
• Kāfiyah-i sharḥ-i Ifṣāḥ.
• کافيه شرح افصاح.
• شرح سورة الفاتحة وكتاب الكافية

Title from Hitti, P. Garrett Coll

• Ifṣāḥ fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah.

Title from caption on fol. 1b

• Sharḥ Sūrat al-Fātiḥah wa-Kitāb al-Kāfiyah

OCLC

1304525244

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