Item Summary

A gloss on the commentary of Ibn al-Nāẓim on al-Alfīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
حاشية شرح الالفية لابن الناظم / للامام شهاب الدين احمد بن قاسم العبادي.
Transliterated Title
Ḥ̣āshiyat Sharḥ al-Alfīyah li-Ibn al-Nāẓim / lil-Imām Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-ʻAbbādī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 346H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1v53k730x
Publisher
Ramaḍān 1053 [November 1643]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1643
Format
Manuscript
Extent
369 leaves : paper ; 214 x 145 (153 x 87) mm. bound to 211 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Aḥmad Bā Ḥasan dated 1208, and an obliterated signature (fol. 1a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 408.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 408.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 36.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 126.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. "Ibn al-Qāsim" written on lower edge of the text block. Title page has a paragraph about the text.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 369 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (hand) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied in the middle of Ramaḍān 1053 by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī (fol. 369a).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. رب يسر بفضلك يا کريم. قوله واحده کلمة وهي على ثلاثة اقسام
Colophon: وهذا آخر ما کتبه علامة زمانه المحقق الشهاب العبادي على شرح الخلاصة للعالم المدقق البدر بن مالك على يد مکمل التجريد افقر العباد لمن اليه التفويض والاستناد زين العالدين بن زکريا الانصاري في اواسط رمضان سنة ثلاث وخمسين والف ختمت بخير ... والحمد لله على انعامه والصلاة والسلام على المصطفى واله وصحبه واهل نظامه. ام
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants outlined in gold and blind-tooled and gold-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. In a case (217 x 155 mm.) with leather pull strap. Covers loose and spine missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Nāẓim, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad -1287 or 1288—Sharḥ Alfīyat Ibn Mālik
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
760

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9d3039ce-92f0-4332-bf42-32a81279131f/manifest