Item Summary

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem al-Alfīyah.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح ابن عقيل على الفية ابن مالك.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ Ibn ʻAqīl ʻalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 348H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfq9785106
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1792
Extent
(1), 263, (3) leaves : paper ; 230 x 165 (150 x 85) mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 410.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 408.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 62/3.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6642/3.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Title page has kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms).
Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 263 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19-22 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; vowel signs ; MS in good condition but first two folios are mended.
Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 20 Jumādá II 1206 (fol. 263b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال محمد هو بن مالك احمد رب [ربي] الله خير مالك
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخ هذا الکتاب المبارك يوم الاثنين نهار عشرين يوماً من شهر جماد[ى] اخر [الاخر] الذي هو من شهور سنة 1206 من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والسلام امين. تم
Binding Note
Later? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Flap has similar decoration. Block-stamped yellow paper pastedowns. In case (239 x 172 mm.) of red leather and marbled paper with leather pull strap.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
552

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/3d5a3025-f0b1-45fb-8431-526037820103/manifest