Item Summary

Collection of fragmentary Arabic texts on law, Arabic language, and other topics.

Descriptive Information

Title
[شرح الكافية] ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
[Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah] ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 367L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8336hf226
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1600-1799
Format
Manuscript
Extent
168 leaves : paper ; 216 x 154 (150-164 x 92-105) mm bound to 224 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1b-34b: [Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah] / Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ṣabbān. Contains diagrams (fol.16b-17a). Incomplete at end.
2. fol. 35a-42b: [Musāyarah fī al-ʻaqāʼid al-munjīyah fī al-ākhirah]? / [Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wāḥid ibn al-Humam]. Incomplete at beginning and end.
3. fol. 43a-56b: [Treatise on grammar]
4. fol. 57a-68b: [Treatise on ablution and prayer]
5. fol. 69a-74b: [Legal treatise on buying and selling]
6.fol. 75a-78b: [Legal treatise on marriage and divorce]
7. fol. 79a-82a: [Legal treatise on items deposited as security]
8. fol. 83a-83b: [Legal treatise on the manumission of slaves]
9. fol. 84a-85b: [Treatise on the Ten Sciences]
10. fol. 86a-92b: [Mystical treatise on the meaning of human existence]
11. fol. 93a-93b: [Treatise on manumission]
12. fol. 94a-117b: [Treatise on the shahādah]
13. fol. 118a-119b: [Treatise on marriage]
14. fol. 120a-122b: [Treatise on courting a woman]
15. fol. 123a-168b: [Treatise on Arabic grammar]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Label on upper cover: "KE 300".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 168 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-34, 43-56, 75-78, 94-117: three crescents; fol. 57-68: roman-alphabet initials "GA"; fol. 69-74: anchor; fol. 123-168: three stars) ; MS in good condition.
Layout: 21-25 lines per page.
Beginning: [شرح الكافية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي يسر لنا بمريد فضله سلوك عروض المعارف ... اما بعد فيقول راجي الغفران محمد بن علي الصبان ... من شرحي علي منظومتي الكافية ... -- [35أ] ...فان قيل انا الارتداء حقيقة ببسم الله الرحمن الرحيم من هذين اللفظين واما الحمد فمن جملة المبد ... -- [43أ] ... الى حقيقتها ومفهومها فيل وفى تعريفها ... -- [57أ] ... واحدة لم تصح وقتها بين صلاة العشا وطلوع الفجر ... -- [69أ] ... السابقه فله اي البايع من غير حاكم ... -- [75أ] ... اى لا يم؟ شي لمعتدة ومعتدة العصبته ... -- [79أ] ... للشرط في الاخيره وبه فارق ... -- [83أ] ... المعتق معسراوان كان موسرا يتجرى ... -- [84أ] ... يظهر من القالب ليظهر اسراره لان الوجود سر ابيه ... -- [86أ] ... والكون كان ناقصا حتى ظهر ادم بالجسم ... -- [93أ] ... فلم ي؟ق احد والخامس ان تدعى الام او لوية الغلام -- [94أ] ... يصيد بها حمام غيره ... -- [118أ] ... نعم جواب لقوله ان وجت واقبلت والسوال مضمن في الجواب ... -- [120أ] ... فصل يباح لمن اراد حطبة امراة بكسر الحا وغلب على ظنه ... --[123أ] ... قوله المتوحد بجلال ذانه الظاهر ان البآء فى قوله ...
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in red leather. Blind-tooled inner and outer frame. Spine replaced with brown leather. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Kāfiyah al-shāfiyah
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar
Islam—Doctrines
Islamic law
Islam—Rituals
Sufism
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Watermarks
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
348

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/83e057d7-8c36-49ce-a4db-bf39cdfd5415/manifest