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A famous introductory treatise to the study of grammatical inflection.
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Item Summary
A famous introductory treatise to the study of grammatical inflection.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- کتاب کافيه در شرح صرف
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb-i Kāfiyah dar sharḥ-i ṣarf
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 336H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcbk128n20d
- Language
- Arabic
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 33, (2) leaves : paper ; 211 x 153 (125 x 70) mm. bound to 212 x 152 mm.
- Provenance
- Signature of Ismāʻīl ibn [?] al-Sarwī on first flyleaf.
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 386.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 563.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58) IV, p. 3.
- Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 6, 15.
- Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 953/4.
- Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 6600.
- A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 945-8.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 1a).
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Table of contents on folio before title page. Front pastedown names Caliph Abū Bakr. Lines of poetry on title page.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 33 + (2) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 15 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs ; watermarks (three crescents; crown-star-crescent with roman-alphabet countermark "AC" with a clover) ; MS in fair condition but heavily stained and smeared with dampness affecting legibility in places.
- Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين. ... وبعد فقد التمس منى لا يسعني مخالفة ان الحق بمقدمتى فى الاعراب مقدمة فى التصريف
- Ending: ... واما الحروف فلم يکتب منها بالياء غير بلى وعلى والى وحتى
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in paper over pasteboard.
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- File Count
- 80
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/9cc70c9e-88bd-4265-90be-d6d991b7023f/manifest