Item Summary

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem, al-Alfīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الخلاصة / شمس الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن جابر الهواري والندلوسي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Khulāṣah / Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir al-Hawwārī wa-al-Andalūsī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 351H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcw9505984z
Language
Arabic
Extent
144 leaves : paper ; 275 x 203 (224 x 150) mm. bound to 273 x 203 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 414.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 409.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4095.
Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 74/5.
Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 196.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from colophon (fol. 144a).
Marginal notes. Fol. 1a has two lines of poetry and an anecdote. Along the edge of fol. 144a and the across the entirety of 144b is additional text on grammar.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 144 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 32 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; text of Alfīyah is vocalized ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Muḥammad ... ibn Mūsá al-Ḥusaynī.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. ... الحمد لله الذي ... رسل [ارسل] الينا اشرف الرسل
Colophon: قد انتهى شرح الخلاصة بحمد الله وحسن عونه الجميل على يد کاتبه العبد الفقير الى ربه سبحنه محمد بن عبد العزيز ... بن موسى الحسيني غفرالله له ولوالديه ... ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم وسلام على المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين. تم
Binding Note
Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and yellow marbled paper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
296

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/2265f970-6175-45a6-9358-cf4e954c68f4/manifest