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. 348H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem al-Alfīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title page has kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 263 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19-22 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition but first two folios are mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 20 Jumādá II 1206 (fol. 263b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال محمد هو بن مالك احمد رب [ربي] الله خير مالك
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الکتاب المبارك يوم الاثنين نهار عشرين يوماً من شهر جماد[ى] اخر [الاخر] الذي هو من شهور سنة 1206 من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام امين. تم

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Flap has similar decoration. Block-stamped yellow paper pastedowns. In case (239 x 172 mm.) of red leather and marbled paper with leather pull strap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 410.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 408.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 62/3.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6642/3.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1311275383

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