Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Particles—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. 396H [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise in verse on the meaning and use of the particles.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The two folios before the text contain the title of the MS, and two religious inscriptions.
• Title from preliminary leaf (fol. (2)a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 42 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 10-15 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. احمد ربي حالة الضراء * حمدي له في حالة السراء
• Ending: ممن لهم حسنى الله عمت * وفيهم کل المزايا تمت

Binding note

Later binding. Covered in blue paper with fabric along the spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 479.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6794.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kifāyah ḥafīyah lil-rāghib al-ḥafāyah
• كفاية حفية للراغب الحفاية

OCLC

1313965020

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