Details

Subject(s)

• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah [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. 344H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem, al-Alfīyah. The author of this commentary is the son of the elder Ibn Mālik.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Immediately after the colophon occurs a statement that this MS was copied from another which was made in Baalbek 693 [1294]. The statement adds that Baalbek was destroyed 1011 [1602/3]. Kabīkab (invocation against bookworms) on title page. Hadith on fol. 232b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 232 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, although most folios are loose.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشيخ ... بدر الدين محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن ملك الطائى رحمه الله. اما بعد حمد الله
• Colophon: تم الكلام بحمد الله تعالى وبالصلاة على ببيه ... فجل من لا فيه عيب والحمد الله وحده

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Block-pressed mandorla with pendants and blind-stamped decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Block-pressed design on pastedowns. Appears to never have been sewn. Flap is narrower than the volume.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī dated 1257; obliterated signature and seal impression (fol. 1a).
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 406.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 407.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 63.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 509.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 960/1.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6635¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ ʻalá ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah
• شرح على علم العربية

OCLC

1306381993

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