Item Summary

A commentary on ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥājib's al-Kāfiyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب متواسط.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Mutawāsiṭ.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 325H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcb8515z67k
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
133, (1) leaves : paper ; 207 x 144 (138 x 89) mm bound to 205 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Ḥāshim Afandī Nihādī Afandī (fol. 133b).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 363.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Some calculations and a few lines of poetry on the title page. Between folios 129 and 130 several folios are missing.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 133 + (1) ; some catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (anchor) ; MS in good condition but several folios are worm-eaten.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله على عظمة جلاله حمد غريق بمطالعة جماله
Ending: والله اعلم بالعواب
Binding Note
Half-bound type III (without flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar 1175-1249—Kāfiyah
Arabic language—Syntax—Early works to 1800
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Autographs
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
276

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/523fc0fa-27de-4e07-b9e2-d29e28a1e891/manifest