Item Summary

A commentary explaining the verses of poetry in al-Muwashshaḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذا كتاب شواهد خبيصي على كافية.
Transliterated Title
Hādhā Kitāb Shawāhid Khabīṣī ʻalá Kāfiyah.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 55L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcs7526r44b
Publisher
[19th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1800-1899
Extent
117 leaves : paper ; 205 x 150 (160 x 95) mm bound to 208 x 153 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 381.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1b).
Label on cover and spine. Inscription and stamp in purple ink (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 117 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (three hats; unidentified mark with roman-alphabet initials "FGA"; three crescents; sun?; circles) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably from the XIXth century.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله الذي جعل النحو مرقاة منصوبة الى دقائق البيان ... ويقول الفقير الى الله الغنى عيسى ابن احمد شروانى لما كان شرح الكافية المسمى بالموشح ...
Ending: فباعتبار العامة شابه النفي المشابه م
Binding Note
Later? type III (without flap) limp binding in red leather. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Khabīṣī, Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr active 14th century—Muwashshaḥ
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
Headbands
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
240

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/78da80a1-0876-4d86-8e57-3b8c9b2a71cb/manifest