Sharḥ al-Kitāb. Selections
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- Harvard University's Libraries and Museums
- Data provider:
- Harvard University Library
- Title:
- Sharḥ al-Kitāb. Selections
شرح الكتاب. Selections - Alternative title:
- Sharḥ Kitāb Sībawayh
شرح كتاب سيبويه - Creator:
- Sīrāfī, al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh, approximately 893-approximately 979 (المنشئ)
- Date:
- Date Issued: 0979
- Description:
- Written in one column, 18 lines per pages, in black ink.The ms is incomplete and contain the following sections (ajzāʼ): section 43 (f. 1r), 58 (f. 32r), 70 (f. 60r), 67 (f. 69r), 68 (f. 119r), 76 (f. 231r), 77 (f. 261r), 80 (f. 319r). There are also parts from other sections, which lack title pages. Leaves may be out of order.Bound in light brown leather. Bound in India probably in late 19th or early 20th century.The ms is not dated but copied in the life time of the author, towards the end of it, and most probably in Baghdad. The book was read to the author and signed by him.Note in the hand of the author on f. 1r and on first folios of each juzʼ of the book: "qaraʼahu ʻalayya ilá ākhirihi Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Madāyinī; wa-katabahu al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Sīrāfī."With this is bound a fragment of the section on letter bāʼ (colophon title: Kitāb al-bāʼ) of a dictionary (ff. 356-365). The author of the dictionary is identified as Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jaʻfar al-Tamīmī al-Naḥwī in the colophon (f. 365v). The fragment is completed in the hand of the ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Ḥanīfah on 4 Rajab 368 AH [February 3, 979 AD]. The manuscript was collated with the original one written in the hand of the author.Iran Jewett manuscript no. 1.MS Arab 438. Houghton Library, Harvard University.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2010. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- text
bibliography
Early works to 1800 - Type (Narrower):
- Books
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Arabic language
Grammar - Geographic region:
- Place of Production: iq, Iraq
- Extent:
- 354 leaves, bound ; 27 cm.
- Identifier:
- 990114855880203941
- Is part of:
- Open Collections Program at Harvard University Islamic Heritage Project