Item Summary

A commentary on the famous grammatical poem, al-Alfīyah. The author of this commentary is the son of the elder Ibn Mālik.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا شرح الشيخ بدر الدين ابن مالك على الفية ابن مالك فى علم العربية.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Sharḥ al-Shaykh Badr al-Dīn ibn Mālik ʻalá Alfiyat Ibn Mālik fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 344H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcnp193m488
Publisher
[between 1602 and 1841]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1602-1841
Format
Manuscript
Extent
232 leaves : paper ; 207 x 152 (153 x 100) mm bound to 208 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Ghanī dated 1257; obliterated signature and seal impression (fol. 1a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 406.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 407.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 63.
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 509.
Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 960/1.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6635¹.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Immediately after the colophon occurs a statement that this MS was copied from another which was made in Baalbek 693 [1294]. The statement adds that Baalbek was destroyed 1011 [1602/3]. Kabīkab (invocation against bookworms) on title page. Hadith on fol. 232b.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 232 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 23 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; overwriting and other use of red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in fair condition, although most folios are loose.
Incipit: بسم الله ... قال الشيخ ... بدر الدين محمد بن محمد بن عبد الله بن ملك الطائى رحمه الله. اما بعد حمد الله
Colophon: تم الكلام بحمد الله تعالى وبالصلاة على ببيه ... فجل من لا فيه عيب والحمد الله وحده
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in light brown leather. Block-pressed mandorla with pendants and blind-stamped decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Block-pressed design on pastedowns. Appears to never have been sewn. Flap is narrower than the volume.

Discovery Information

Subject
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
475

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/635dbc3c-7fa5-4ae7-9756-d9336d738cd5/manifest