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Subject(s)

• Ibn ʿAqīl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 1294?-1367—Sharḥ Ibn ʿAqīl ʿalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik [Browse]
• 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. 349H [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on the commentary of Ibn ʻAqīl on the famous grammatical poem, al-Alfīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. The colophon gives the date when the author completed the gloss, namely 1178 [1765].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 235 + (1) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-24 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي رفع قدر من انخفض لربوبيته
• Colophon: قال مولفه تم بحمد الله ماجمعته من دررالکلمات وغررالعبارات على شرح العلامة ابن عقيل وکان ذلك في يوم الجمعة المبارکة قبيل العصر لليلتين مضيتا من شهر رمضان المعظم قدره الذي هو من شهور [سنة] الف ومائة وثمان وسبعين من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وحزبه وسلم امين

Binding note

Unbound. Does not appear to have ever been sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 412.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 81/2.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4094.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 277.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1306445610

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