Item Summary

A commentary on al-Kāfiyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
فوائد وافية لحل مشكلات الكافية / ابن الحاجب.
Transliterated Title
Fawāʼid wāfiyah li-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah / Ibn al-Ḥājib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 60L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc8w32rj62v
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1806
Extent
183 leaves : paper ; 204 x 145 (125 x 75) mm bound to 211 x 152 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jāsim al-Bazārjī dated 1295, Muḥammad ʻAlī najl ʻAbd Allāh al-Ḥājj Ḥusayn al-Kurdī dated Ṣafar 1288 with his obscured seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 374.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from preface (fol. 1b).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Inscriptions on folio 1a include a prayer, and a line of secret writing.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 183 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 11-13 lines per page.
Description: Overlining in red ; watermarks (unidentified, countermark with roman-alphabet initials and trefoil) ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 1221 (fol. 183b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه وعلى اله واصحابه المتأدبين بادابه اما بعد فهذه فوائد وافية بحل مشکلات الکافيه للعلامة المشتهر فى المشارق والمغارب الشيخ ابن الحاجب ...
Colophon: تمت 1221
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled edging. Binding repaired along edges of upper cover with red leather.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
374

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/baa6041e-d822-459c-a933-ed12096f1d6c/manifest