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. 345H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Cloth bindings (Binding) [Browse]
• Doublures (Binding) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [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 text (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Symbols written on the top edge.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 309 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (circular design) ; MS in good condition but the first folio is partly defective. It appears that the edges of the folios have been trimmed.
• Decoration: Headpiece illuminated with gold, orange, blue, brown and black (fol. 1b). Fols. 1a-2b framed in gold and black.
• Origin: According to colophon copied late Muḥarram 979 by Qāsim ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bakrī (fol. 309a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه تستعين اما بعد الحمد لله سبحانه بماله من المحامد
• Explicit: نسخ هذا الكتاب سنفه الفقير ... قاسم ابن عيد الرحيم البكري ... في اواخر شهر المحرم الحرام من شهور سنة تسع وسبعين وبسعماية احسن الله ختامه بمنه وجوده م

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Upper cover is cut down from a larger volume with offset blind-stamped mandorla. Lower cover has blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs. Flap has blind-stamped design underneath black silk. Fabric doublures and flyleaves of black silk. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: Darwīsh ibn Aḥmad al-shahīr bi-Ibn Pasanjaqʹdār[?], Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-Mudarris dated 1112, Muḥammad Ṣāhir[?] ibn Muṣṭafá Afandī Kajarmānī[?] dated 1124 (fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 407.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

الفية، شرح، خلاصة

Title on bottom edge

• Alfiyah, sharḥ, Khulāṣah

OCLC

1306445115

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