Item Summary

A treatise in verse on the meaning and use of the particles.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الكفاية حفية لراغب الحفاية / تأليف ابو محمد عبد الله بن محمد الشافعي البيتوشي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Kifāyah ḥafīyah li-rāghib al-ḥafāyah / taʼlīf Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī al-Baytūshī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 396H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9306t8742
Publisher
[between 1760 and 1900]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1760-1900
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(2), 42, (2) leaves : paper ; 181 x 115 (130 x 75) mm bound to 183 x 115 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 479.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6794.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. The two folios before the text contain the title of the MS, and two religious inscriptions.
Title from preliminary leaf (fol. (2)a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 42 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 10-15 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. احمد ربي حالة الضراء * حمدي له في حالة السراء
Ending: ممن لهم حسنى الله عمت * وفيهم کل المزايا تمت
Binding Note
Later binding. Covered in blue paper with fabric along the spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Particles—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
100

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ea4e5272-eedd-4c05-9a7e-73787e435e02/manifest