Item Summary

A commentary on al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب القول الكافي بشرح الكافي / تأليف عبد القادر بن عبد البر.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Qawl al-kāfī bi-sharḥ al-Kāfī / taʼlīf ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn ʻAbd al-Barr.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 402H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0k225n53z
Publisher
18 Muḥarram 1063 [December 19, 1652]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1652
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(1), 43, (4) leaves : paper ; 238 x 166 (188 x 124) mm. bound to 241 x 167 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 508.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 195.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes.
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 43 + (4) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 15 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied 18 Muḥarram 1063 by Ḥasan ʻUways (fol. 43a).
Incipit: بسم الله ... حمدا لله تعالى على نعمه الکافية
Colophon: وقد تم الکتاب بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه على يد کاتبه الفقير الى ربه الجليل مالکه حسن عويس في 18 محرم الحرام سنة 1063 ثلاثة وستين والف. تم
Binding Note
Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khawwāṣ, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbād 1378?-1454—Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-ʻarūḍ wa-al-qawāfī
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Rhyme—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
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Physical Characteristics

File Count
104

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b4a9c546-e096-424a-9e87-32bfcafb024a/manifest