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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]

Scribe

• Jīzāwī, Ibrāhīm, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• جيزاوي، ابراهيم، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 350H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

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

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes. On two folios before the title page occurs a table of contents. Obscured signature and seal impression on title page. In original colophon the author states that he completed the work 1250 [1834].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 454 + (2) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-46 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "VG" ; MS in excellent condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 14 Jumādá II 1270 by Ibrāhīm al-Jīzāwī al-Misāwī/al-Minyāwī[?] (fol. ).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. نحمدك اللهم يا من تفضل على من نحا نحوه
• Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من نسخلها قبيل الظهر يوم الثلثا الرابع عشر من جماد الثاني سنة 1270 الف ومائتين وسبعين على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابراهيم الجيزاوي المنياوي غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرًا دائما الى يوم الدين

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and spine. Yellow paper pastedowns. In case (235 x 170 mm.) of red leather and marbled paper with leather pull strap. Quires never sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 413.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 39/40.
• Brockelmann, GAL, I, p. 299.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Ḥāshiyat al-Khuḍarī ʻalá Shar[ḥ] Ibn ʻAqīl li-Alfīyat Ibn Mālik
• حاشية الخضري على شر[ح] ابن عقيل لالفية ابن مالك

OCLC

1306446012

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