Item Summary

A famous introductory treatise to the study of grammatical inflection by Ibn al-Ḥājib followed by a work in two parts, the first dealing with prosody and the second with rhyme.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الشافية للصرف ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Shāfiyah lil-ṣarf ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 337H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcz890s454t
Publisher
Rabīʻ I, 1047-27 Rajab 1062 [August 1637-July 4, 1652]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1637-1652
Format
Manuscript
Extent
65 leaves : paper, illustrations ; 215 x 150 (132-137 x 73-75) mm. bound to 199 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Signatures: Dāwūd ibn Qāsim Afandī ibn Muḥamad Afandī; Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥusayn? (fol. 1a); ʻAbd Allāh, qāḍī bi-madīnat Qayṣarīyah (fol. 64a); Abū al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad Faẓl Allāh ibn Qāsim Afandī ibn Muḥammad Afandī (fol. 65a)
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 387, 515.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-41b: Kitāb al-Shāfiyah lil-ṣarf.
2. fol. 42a-43a: [Inscriptions]
3. fol. 43b-59a: Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-arūḍ.
4. fol. 59b-64a: al-Kitāb al-thānī fī al-qawāfī.
4. fol. 64b-65b: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. MS is illustrated with sketches. Several inscriptions on pastedowns, folios between texts, and last three folios.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 65 ; catchwords ; foliation in red ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13-15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (1st work: [unidentified] with roman-alphabet countermark "VJ[?]" with a clover; 2nd work: crown-star-crescent with roman-alphabet countermark "RC") ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
Decoration: Diagrams in red and black ink illustrating prosody.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Shāfiyah] Copied at the end of Rabīʻ I, 1047 (fol. 41b) -- [Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-arūḍ] Copied 27 Rajab 1062 (fol. 59a).
Incipit: [كتاب الشافية] الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا المرسلين وعلى اله واصحابه اجمعين وبعد فقد سألنى من لا يسعني -- [مقدمة في علم الاروض] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله ذي الطول الشديد -- [كتاب الثاني في القوافى] اعلم ان علم القوافى علم شريف نسبته الى العروض
Colophon: [كتاب الشافية] تمت الكتاب بعون الله تعالى في اواخر ربيع الاول سنة 1047 [مقدمة في علم الاروض] تم الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب في 27 في رجب الفرد فيها سنة اثنين وستين والف -- [كتاب الثاني في القوافى] کقول عبيد بن الابرص افقر من اهله محلوب. فالقطبيات
Binding Note
Quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Rhyme—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
diagrams
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
138

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3d18a297-0102-41fe-bc82-3c03e2c6959a/manifest