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. 352H [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]

Summary note

A brief commentary on the grammatical poem al-Alfīyah by Ibn Mālik.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 142 + (2) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-15 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red with a double line text border, larger frame line, and an edge line.
• Description: Rubrication ; vowel signs ; watermarks (shield with face-in-a-moon, roman-alphabet letters "VG") ; MS in excellent condition.
• Decoration: Simple illuminated headpiece consisting of red crosshatching.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم .... قال محمد هو ابن مالك * احمد ربي الله خير ملك
• Colophon: واقول کان فراغي من جمعه يوم الجمعة ثالث رمضان المعظم قدره سنة اثنين وستين وثمانمائة بمدرسة الصالحية ... وحسبنا الله ونعم الوکيل ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Does not appear to have ever been sewn.

Provenance

• Ownership signature: ʻAbd Allāh ibn Makkī al-Wanīs (fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 418.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 411.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 63.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرح الفية

Ttile on lower edge

• Sharḥ Alfīyah

OCLC

1306452860

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