Awḍaḥ al-masālik ilá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik

Title:

Awḍaḥ al-masālik ilá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik

Creator:

Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360

Contributor:

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 347H

Date:

1478

Description:

Abstract: Commentary on the Alfīyah fī al-naḥw, a versified treatise on grammar by Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik (d. 672/1274).Binding note: Type III (without flap) binding in golden brown leather (peeling). Paper pastedowns. Traces of a leather doublure on fol. 1a. Multi-colored endbands.Ms. codex.Title from title page (fol. 2a).'Inscription in Western numerals on a label pasted on the upper cover: "56" (corresponding to Brill\'s catalog.'Collation: Paper ; fol. 124 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.Layout: 19 lines per page.Description: Rubricated ; use of red for re-inking (stops after fol. 34) . Soft thick light cream paper with laid lines, chain lines and pulp visible. Ḥāshiyah on the margins. Fol. 2 apparently two fol. pasted together. Fol. 1 disbound, apparently not part of the original ms., with scribal essays on the recto and short text on verso. Fol. 124, later addition on European glazed paper, with scribal essays.Origin: According to the colophons, copy of main text completed on 24 Shaʻbān 883 (fol. 122b), and Fāʼidah copied for himself (li-nafsih) by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Manāwī, in 801 H. 1398 or 99 (fol. 123b).Incipit: قال الشيخ الامام العلامة ... اما بعد حمد الله مستحق الحمد وملهمه ومنشئ الحلق.Explicit (fol. 122b): وقد يفك الادغام في غير ذلك شدوذا نحو لجحت عينه والل السقا او في ضرورة كقوله الحمد لله العلي الاجلل الواسع الفصل الوهوب المجزل تم التوضيح المبارك.Incipit of Fāʼidah (fol. 123a): فايدة قول التوضيح في فصل ابدال الالف من اختيها الواو واليا في الشرط التاسع.Explicit of Fāʼidah (fol. 123b): على الاعلال فلان يقدمون الادغام على الاعلال من باب اول هكذا طهر والله اعلم اعلم.

Language:

Arabic

Type:

Leather doublures (Binding)
Headbands (Binding)
Early works to 1800

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274—Alfīyah

Provenance:

Several obliterated ownership statements on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Extent:

124 leaves : paper ; 185 x 134 (117 x 92) mm.

Publisher:

1478

Rights:

https://rbsc.princeton.edu/services/imaging-publication-services

Identifier:

"<a href='http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx346df497' alt='Identifier'>http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcx346df497</a>"

Is part of:

Robert Garrett
Middle East Manuscripts
Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
Collections Donated to Princeton University Library

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