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Commentary on al-Kāfīyah fī naḥw, a treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib.
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- Publisher
- [1443 or 1444]
- People
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- Author
- Ibn Sharaf Shāh, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad, 1247 or 1248-1315 or 1316
- ابن شرف شاه، حسن بن محمد 1247 or 1248-1315 or 1316
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 57L
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
Commentary on al-Kāfīyah fī naḥw, a treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar Ibn al-Ḥājib.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- الوافية في شرح الكافية
- Transliterated Title
- al-Wāfīyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfīyah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 57L
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcp5548438j
- Publisher
- [1443 or 1444]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1443
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 172 leaves: paper ; 237 x 140 (140 x 80) mm bound to 238 x 140 mm.
- Provenance
- Obliterated ownership statement dated 1245 [1829 or 30] on fol. 1a, with seal. Seals (mostly obliterated) on fol. 172a-b. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 365.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from inscription on the tail of the text block.
- Ḥāshīyah on the margins, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Inscription in Arabic numerals on fol. 1a: "847".
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Written in medium small script in black ink with use of red. Dark cream paper with laid lines and pulp visible. Fol. 1-8: later replacement, on biscuit European paper. The two last fol. (fol. 171-172) written in a more elegant naskh.
- Origin: According to colophon, copied in 847 H. (fol. 172a).
- Incipit: احمد الله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق بمطالعة جماله ... وبعد فانى بعد ان شرحت كتاب الكافية فى النحو اولا مع ايرادات ... [2أ] ... قوله الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد اعلم ان معرفة هذا الحد موقوفة على معرفة اللفظ
- Explicit: فانك اذا قلت فى يا زيدون اضربُنّ اضربوا فى الوقف وفى يا امراة اضربنّ اضربى فى الوقف لم يعلم انه يدل على النون او المحذوف المردود وليكن هذا اخر الكلام فى هذا الكتاب وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather over paper pasteboards. Marbled paper pastedowns. Upper cover disbound.
Discovery Information
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 354
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bcba00f8-103d-4f91-9591-ee7f98e50e87/manifest