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هذا كتاب شافية.
Hādhā Kitāb Shāfiyah.
A famous introductory treatise to the study of grammatical inflection.
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- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 338H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A famous introductory treatise to the study of grammatical inflection.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- هذا كتاب شافية.
- Transliterated Title
- Hādhā Kitāb Shāfiyah.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 338H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc6t053s309
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 71 leaves : paper ; 193 x 123 (133 x 61) mm. bound to 192 x 130 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 388.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from heading (fol. 1b).
- A few marginal and interlinear notes.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 71 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 9 lines per page ; fols. 12-32 and 34-67 frame-ruled in red.
- Description: Written in general scripts (fol. 1-11, 33 and 68-70) and Fārisī (fol. 12-32 and 34-67); rubricated ; vowel signs ; watermarks (fols. 12-32, 34-67: anchor in circle with flower on top) ; MS in good condition; several folios are mended.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله وسلام على عباده الذين اصطفى وبعد فقد سألنا من لا يسعنى مخالفة ان الحق بمقدمتى في الاعراب مقدمة في التصريف على نحو
- Colophon: فلم تكتب منها بالياء غير بلى والى وعلى وحبى تمت
- Binding Note
- Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper. Endbands.
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Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 153
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e9d82713-4d5c-4eb4-9e0c-5f96d44183d1/manifest