Item Summary

A metrical work on grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
الفية نحو
Transliterated Title
Alfīyat naḥw
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 64L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0p096k94d
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
123 leaves : paper ; 157 x 100 (110 x 55) mm bound to 157 x 100 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 404.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 407.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6633.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes. Inscription on title page (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 123 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 8 lines per page.
Description: Full vowel signs ; paper tinted light red ; MS in fair condition, first folio defective.
Origin: Probably from XVIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. قال محمد هو ابن مالك * احمد ربي الله خير مالك
Explicit: وآله الغرّ الکرام البررة * وصحبه المنتخبين الخيرة
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-tooled mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and decorative blind-tooled edging on covers. Pink paper pastedowns with gold painted design. Flap is missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
Blind tooled bindings
Colored papers

Physical Characteristics

File Count
254

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/da76f553-8825-41b7-a2ce-8f30cbc6408f/manifest