Item Summary

Copy of a treatise on grammar, with rich annotation and a certificate of reading. The text is followed on fol. 44b-47b by several inscriptions and certificate of reading.

Descriptive Information

Title
كافية ذوي الارب في معرفة كلام العرب / تصنيف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة جمال الدين ابي عمر وعثمان بن عمر بن ابي بكر المالكي عرف بابن الحاجب
Transliterated Title
Kāfīyat dhawī al-arab fī maʻrifat kalām al-ʻArab / taṣnīf al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Jamāl al-Dīn Abī ʻUmar wa-ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar ibn Abī Bakr al-Mālikī ʻurifa bi-Ibn al-Ḥājib.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 532Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hd76s012t
Publisher
[1352]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1352
Extent
47 leaves : paper ; 186 x 134 (120 x 85) mm.
Provenance
Certificate of reading by ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm al-Bisṭāmī for ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Naqīb, dated Dhū al-Ḥijjah 7[--?] (fol. 46a-b). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3514
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 303 (7/1)
Brockelmann, C. GAL, SI, 531 (8/1)
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh with a characteristic final alif, in black ink with use of red. The title page (fol. 1a) is simply decorated in red and black. The text is vocalized. Light cream paper with laid and chain lines visible. Modern label on the upper cover with the inscription in Arabic script "S424". Modern spine label with the inscription in Roman script "AUTS 39". These two inscriptions are repeated on the pastedown of the upper cover. Foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
According to a note on fol. 44a, this copy was collated with an autograph.
Copied on 16(?) Ṣafar 753 (colophon, fol. 44a).
Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله ... الكلمة لفظ وضع لمعنى مفرد
Explicit: و المخففة تحذف للساكن وفى الوقف فيُردّ ما حُذِفَ والمفْتُوح ما قبلها تُقلَبُ الفاً تمت
Binding Note
Yellow paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers and envelope flap. Paper pastedowns.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
98

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/99e23d00-67ad-4e9a-af73-9f9cefd27132/manifest