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كتاب توضيح الالفية / للامام العالم العلامة ابو محمد عبد الله ابن هشام.
Kitāb Tawḍīḥ al-Alfīyah / lil-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Hishām.
1478
Commentary on the Alfīyah fī al-naḥw, a versified treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274).
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Item Summary
Commentary on the Alfīyah fī al-naḥw, a versified treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274).
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب توضيح الالفية / للامام العالم العلامة ابو محمد عبد الله ابن هشام.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb Tawḍīḥ al-Alfīyah / lil-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Hishām.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 347H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx346df497
- Publisher
- [1478]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1478
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 124 leaves : paper ; 185 x 134 (117 x 92) mm.
- Provenance
- Several obliterated ownership statements on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 409
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 2a).
- Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "56" (corresponding to Brill's catalog.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 124 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 19 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; use of red for re-inking (stops after fol. 34) . Soft thick light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines and pulp visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Fol. 2 apparently two fol. pasted together. Fol. 1 disbound, apparently not part of the original ms., with scribal essays on the recto and short text on verso. Fol. 124, later addition on European glazed paper, with scribal essays.
- Origin: According to the colophons, copy of main text completed on 24 Shaʻbān 883 (fol. 122b), and Fāʼidah copied for himself (li-nafsih) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Manāwī, in 801 H. [1398 or 99] (fol. 123b).
- Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العلامة ... اما بعد حمد الله مستحق الحمد وملهمه ومنشئ الحلق.
- Explicit (fol. 122b): وقد يفك الادغام في غير ذلك شدوذا نحو لجحت عينه والل السقا او في ضرورة كقوله الحمد لله العلي الاجلل الواسع الفصل الوهوب المجزل تم التوضيح المبارك.
- Incipit of Fāʼidah (fol. 123a): فايدة قول التوضيح في فصل ابدال الالف من اختيها الواو واليا في الشرط التاسع.
- Explicit of Fāʼidah (fol. 123b): على الاعلال فلان يقدمون الادغام على الاعلال من باب اول هكذا طهر والله اعلم اعلم.
- Binding Note
- Type III (without flap) binding in golden brown leather (peeling). Paper pastedowns. Traces of a leather doublure on fol. 1a. Multi-colored endbands.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 256
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a8d200e7-dc2a-4b96-8e9d-ca741a8f317b/manifest