Item Summary

A gloss on the commentary of Ibn ʻAqīl, on the famous grammatical poem Alfīyah of Ibn Mālik.

Descriptive Information

Title
هذه حاشية محمد الخضري الشافي على شر[ح] ابن عقيل لالفية ابن مالك.
Transliterated Title
Hādhihi Ḥāshiyat Muḥammad al-Khuḍarī al-Shāfiī ʻalá Shar[ḥ] Ibn ʻAqīl li-Alfīyat Ibn Mālik.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 350H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc1257b363f
Publisher
14 Jumādá II 1270 [March 14, 1854]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1854
Format
Manuscript
Extent
(2), 454, (2) leaves : paper ; 235 x 165 (166 x 106) mm. bound to 232 x 170 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 413.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 39/40.
Brockelmann, GAL, I, p. 299.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes. On two folios before the title page occurs a table of contents. Obscured signature and seal impression on title page. In original colophon the author states that he completed the work 1250 [1834].
Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 454 + (2) ; catchwords ; quires signed: 1-46 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "VG" ; MS in excellent condition.
Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 14 Jumādá II 1270 by Ibrāhīm al-Jīzāwī al-Misāwī/al-Minyāwī[?] (fol. ).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين. نحمدك اللهم يا من تفضل على من نحا نحوه
Colophon: وقد وافق الفراغ من نسخلها قبيل الظهر يوم الثلثا الرابع عشر من جماد الثاني سنة 1270 الف ومائتين وسبعين على يد الفقير الى الله تعالى ابراهيم الجيزاوي المنياوي غفر الله ذنوبه وستر عيوبه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وصحبه وسلم تسليما کثيرًا دائما الى يوم الدين
Binding Note
Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and corner motifs and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and spine. Yellow paper pastedowns. In case (235 x 170 mm.) of red leather and marbled paper with leather pull strap. Quires never sewn.

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Subject
Ibn ʿAqīl, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān 1294?-1367—Sharḥ Ibn ʿAqīl ʿalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh -1274—Alfīyah
Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Stamps
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
935

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/c872fab0-2970-4b22-94e2-72c9d837bd29/manifest