Item Summary

A text on versification, a commentary on al-Alfīyah by Ibn Mālik, and a commentary on the ode on the law of inheritance called al-Raḥbīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الكافي في علمي الاروض والقوافي ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-arūḍ wa-al-qawāfī ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 404H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dchd76s9568
Publisher
25 Rajab 989-19 Rajab 1048 [September 4, 1581-November 26, 1638]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1581-1638
Format
Manuscript
Extent
93, (1) leaves : paper ; 203 x 155 (150-175 x 90-107) mm. bound to 204 x 158 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: ʻAbd al-Bāqī ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥaqq dated 1091, seal impression of Sharīf ibn Sharīf Ghālib 1252 (fol. 9a); Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Rajabī (fol. 52a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 507, 420, 1870.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 408/9.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, III, p. 312/3, VII, p. 457, 499; IV, p. 27.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 511¹.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 4697, 6653/4.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 965.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-8b: Kitāb al-Kāfī fī ʻilmay al-arūḍ wa-al-qawāfī / taʼlīf Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. Wrongly attributed to al-Suyūṭī.
2. fol. 9a-51b: Kitāb Sharḥ Alfīyat Ibn Mālik fī al-naḥw / lil-Imām Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī. A brief commentary on al-Alfīyah.
3. fol. 52a-93b: Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah fī al-farāyiḍ / taʼlīf ʻAbd Allāh al-Shinshawrī. A commentary on an ode on the law of inheritance entitled Ghunyat al-bāḥith fī ʻilm al-mawārīth wa-al-farāʼiḍ and commonly called al-Raḥbīyah.
Notes
Ms. composite codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. On fol. 1a occurs another title, Kitāb fī naẓm al-qawāʻid... . Folios 1, 2, 7 and 8 are by one hand and folios 3-6 by another. Several ownership statements and seal impressions, some obscured.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 93 + (1) ; catchwords ; partial foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-27 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; text in red and commentary in black ; MS in fair condition but worm-eaten and mended; folio 2 partly defective.
Origin: [Kitāb al-Kāfī] Copied Thursday, 19 Rajab 1048 by Aḥmad ibn Shaʻbān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Tāj al-Dīn al-Fayyūmī (fol. 8b) -- [Kitāb Sharḥ Alfīyat] Copied Saturday 25 Rajab 989 (fol. 51b) -- [Kitāb Sharḥ al-Raḥbīyah] Copied by ʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Sulaymān al-Makkī (fol. 93b).
Incipit: [كتاب الكافى] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين قال الله تعالى ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله علي الالهام والسكر له علي الانعام ... وبعد هذا تاليف كافي في علمي العريض والقوافي والله الموفق وعليه التوكل -- [كتاب شرح الفية] بسم الله ... قال الشيخ العلامة مربي المريدين -- [كتاب شرح الرحبية] بسم الله ... واشهد ان لا اله الا الله الا الله وحده
Colophon: [كتاب الكافى] وكان الفراغ من كتابته يوم الخميس المبارك تاسع عشر سهر رجب الحرام من شهور سنة 1048 من الهجرة النبوية علي صاحبها افضل الصلاة والتسليم ورضى الله عن كل الصحابه اجمعين وعن العلما العاملين امين -- [كتاب شرح الفية] وافق الفراغ منه على يد کاتبه ... يوم السبت الميمون المبارك خامس عشرين الشهرالحرام رجب الاصب سنة تسع وثمانين وتسعماية احسن الله عاقبتنا في الامور کلها بجاه سيدنا محمد سيد المرسلين امين صلى الله وسلم عليه وعليهم اجمعين -- [كتاب شرح الرحبية] وکان الفراغ من کتابة هذه النسخة المبارکة على يد اضعف عباد الله واحوجهم اليه عبد القادر بن سليمان المکي بلدًا الشافعي مذهبا عفي [عفا] الله عنهما والمسلمين امين امين امين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging. Similar decoration on flap. Inner flap lined with patterned fabric. Yellow paper pastedowns with block-pressed design. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Rhyme—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah
Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī 1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182—Urjūzah al-Raḥbīyah
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
201

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19ee2362-b416-49e1-b3af-806fcb851624/manifest