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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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 353H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A grammatical analysis of the verses of grammatical poem al-Alfīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 3a).
• A few marginal notes. Brief inscriptions before and after the text. On edges of MS the name of the author is given as Khālid al-Maghribī.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 158 + iii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition but slightly worm-eaten.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 16 Shaʻbān 1141 (fol. 156b).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي رفع قدر من اعرب الشهادتين
• Colophon: وافق الفراغ من کتبه عشية الاربعاء في شهر الله شعبان بعد ان مضت منه ستة عشر يوما سنة الخير سنة احد[ى] واربعين وماية والف والحمد لله على ذلك

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and red marbled paper. Upper pastedown has printing on the reverse. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

• Ownership statement with name obscured dated 1230 (fol. 2a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 419.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 412.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 33/4.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6649/50.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4087.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 137.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• كتاب معرب الفية
• الشيخ خالد المغربي على الالفية

Title on fol. 1a

• Kitāb muʻrab Alfīyah

Title on lower edge

• al-Shaykh Khālid al-Maghribī ʻalá al-Alfīyah

OCLC

1306453064

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