Item Summary

A metrical work on grammar.

Descriptive Information

Title
الفية.
Transliterated Title
Alfīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 63L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc4f16cf850
Publisher
[16th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1500-1599
Format
Manuscript
Extent
123 leaves : paper ; 184 x 121 (140 x 70) mm bound to 187 x 125 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 405.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title in later hand from preliminary folio (fol. 1a).
Heavily annotated with marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Incomplete at end. Inscriptions (fol. 1a and 2a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 123 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 10 lines per page.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in fair condition, mended. Fol. 7-10 and 26 are replacements.
Origin: Probably from XVIth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال محمد هو ابن مالك احمد ربى الله خير مالك ...
Ending: ... وترك ان مع ذى الشروع وجبا * كانشأ الشايق يحدو وطفق * كذا جعلت واخذت وعلق
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and purple and red marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Poetry—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
poetry
Poetry
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
254

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1d203ef4-e236-4f14-9ef3-98ab3877113f/manifest