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كتاب شرح الفصيح / تصنيف ابو عبد الله بن خالويه النحوي
Kitāb Sharḥ al-Faṣīḥ / taṣnīf Abū ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khālawayh al-naḥwī.
1200-1299
Commentary on al-Faṣīḥ, a work on lexicography by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Thaʻlab (d. 291/904).
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Commentary on al-Faṣīḥ, a work on lexicography by Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá Thaʻlab (d. 291/904).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب شرح الفصيح / تصنيف ابو عبد الله بن خالويه النحوي
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Sharḥ al-Faṣīḥ / taṣnīf Abū ʻAbd Allāh ibn Khālawayh al-naḥwī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 4025Y
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vx021f16s
- Publisher
- [12--?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1299
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- i, 93, i leaves : paper ; 215 x 158 (165 x 130) mm. bound to 215 x 176 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership statement on the doublure of the upper cover. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Mach, R. Yahuda, 3750
- Sezgin, F. GAS, VIII, p. 179/3
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- 18 lines per page. Written in Maghribī script in black ink (faded to brown). Light cream paper, glossy, with laid lines visible. Leaves mended. Several inscriptions on fol. 93b. Severe worm damage, with loss of text; stained; extremely fragile.
- R. Mach dates the copy from the 7th cent. H.
- Incipit: بسم ... تفسير ما جاء من كتاب الفصيح من غريب وغير ذلك مما يحتاج الى شرحه ... عن ابى عبدالله بن خالويه فاول ذلك قوله نمى الملل
- Binding Note
- Spine, edges and fore-edge flap repaired. Upper and lower covers and envelope flap made of brown leather over paper pasteboards. Upper and lower covers are similarly blind tooled with a roundel with two pendants on the vertical axis and a rich outerframe of several fillets and running patterns with decorated inner corners. Blind tooled frame on the envelope flap. Embossed leather doublure extant on upper and lower covers.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 194
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f8e677a6-4b23-489e-b23f-ce024694ca79/manifest