Item Summary

A commentary on al-Wāfiyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب الوافية في شرح الكافية / محمد بن عمر الحلبي.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb al-Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah / Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar al-Ḥalabī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 327H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcks65hp49n
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
103 leaves : paper ; 204 x 124 (133 x 68) mm. bound to 202 x 131 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Muḥammad Shihāb al-Dīn with his seal impression, Muḥammad Muṣṭafá, Aḥmad Afandī ? (fol. 1a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 366.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 8.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6567.
Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4040.
Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 713.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from text (fol. 2b).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; marginal summaries in red. Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) and a prayer (fol. 2a). Title on lower edge of text block.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; watermarks (anchor, roman-alphabet countermark with clover between initials) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten and mended. The last folio is trimmed and part of the colophon is missing.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين رب تمم بالخير لك الحمد يا من صرف قلوبنا نحو المعاني والبيان
Colophon: ولنختم الکلام بهذه الاية الشريفة ونحمد الله اولا واخرا على شرفنا بالوصل ان الاتمام وتفضل علينا بشير الاختتام انه وياء الانعام والموصل الى المرام وجد القلم فراغا عن سکب عبراته على وجود الصحفات [الصفحات] وسلب وجناته نجمش الناطقات تأريخ
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather and red and blue marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Sharaf Shāh, Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad 1247 or 1248-1315 or 1316—Wāfiyah fī sharḥ al-Kāfiyah
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah
Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
217

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/25f8eeac-1c17-41bb-937e-6c39bf9141d7/manifest