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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]

Scribe

• Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz [Browse]

Related name

• حسيني، محمد بن عبد العزيز [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 351H [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem, al-Alfīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 144a).
• Marginal notes. Fol. 1a has two lines of poetry and an anecdote. Along the edge of fol. 144a and the across the entirety of 144b is additional text on grammar.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 144 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 32 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; text of Alfīyah is vocalized ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad ... ibn Mūsá al-Ḥusaynī.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ... الحمد لله الذي ... رسل [ارسل] الينا اشرف الرسل
• Colophon: قد انتهى شرح الخلاصة بحمد الله وحسن عونه الجميل على يد کاتبه العبد الفقير الى ربه سبحنه محمد بن عبد العزيز ... بن موسى الحسيني غفرالله له ولوالديه ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين. تم

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow marbled paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 414.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 409.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4095.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 74/5.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 196.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1306452670

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