Item Summary

Autograph copy of a commentary on al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī by Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād al-Qināʼī (al-Khawwās, d. 858/1454).

Descriptive Information

Title
المورد الصافي [في] شرح الكافي
Transliterated Title
al-Mawrid al-ṣāfī sharḥ al-Kāfī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 713Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/rv042t126
Publisher
[1692]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1692
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 50, i leaves : paper ; 192 x 133 (134 x 80) mm. bound to 192 x 142 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3848
Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 27 (15/1, cmt. 2)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SII, 22 (15/1, cmt. 2)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from beginning of text (fol. 1b).
21 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black and red ink. European glazed paper. Occasional notes on the margins (mostly corrections). Catchword on the verso of each leaf. Fol. 49: blank. On fol. 48b: note dated 1125 H. [1713].
On fol. (i)a: Inscription in red pencil using Arabic numerals, reading "295".
Copied in a clean copy ("min al-sawād ilá al-bayāḍ") by Khalīl ibn Walī ibn Jaʻfar al-Ḥanafī on Wednesday 9 Shaʻbān 1103 (colophon, fol. 48b).
Incipit: بسم ... وصلى الله ... الحمد لله وكفى وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فيقول العبد الفقير ... خليل بن ولي بن جعفر الحنفى غفر الله ... هذا شرح لطيف لمتن الكافي في علمي العروض والقوافى للعلامة ... القنائى الشافعى ... يُبيّن معَانيها وتحل مباينه مفيداً للاداني والاعالي
Explicit: حتى تستوى والشاذي الاذي والربع جمع رباع وهو الذي يلقى ثنيته(؟) والسّحق الذي يسحق العداوي يبعده وهذا هو الذي ذكرناه هنا اخر ما اردنا ايراده فى هذا المولف والله تعالى الهادي الى الصوّاب واليه المرجع والماب
Binding Note
Blue marbled paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, and envelope flap. Brown leather spine, fore-edge flap and edges. Orange paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khawwāṣ, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād 1378?-1454—Kāfī fī al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs (manuscripts)—Islamic countries—17th century

Physical Characteristics

File Count
108

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6a122a95-57a4-430b-90a8-a1cf338c10da/manifest