[Kāfīyah]; [كافية]

Name:

Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1614/1750

Description:

Two works on Arabic grammar; copied in two different hands and bound together. The first work begins abruptly.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).; Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_156.html

Subject:

Arabic language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Grammar

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 17th century; Manuscripts, 18th century; codices (bound manuscripts)

Physical Description:

164 leaves : paper; 197 x 115 (122 x 50, 125 x 53) mm bound to 192 x 130 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Titles supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f. 1v-80r: Kāfīyah [incomplete] -- 2. f. 83v-164v: [Iẓhār al-asrār]; Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.; Layout: Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled in two styles; some marginalia.; Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.; Decoration: First text border-ruled in double red with a single red page-opening frame rule. Second text ruled in gold for a headpiece on the opening page with polychrome textblock border-rules and page-opening frame rule (f. 83v-84r); textblock on all other pages border-ruled in red with the page-opening framed in red. Rubrications in red in both texts.; Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); central mandorla paper onlay and blind ruled frame with coordinating onlay and rules on flap; gold embossed paper doublure.; Origin: The first text was completed in 1023 A.H. (1614 CE) (f. 80r). The second text is undated, but was probably copied later, perhaps in the later 17th or 18th century.; Several watermarks: In the first work, a crown-crescent, and a flower; in the second work, a crown over the initials GF and FL and a full page design of a central oval with several curling points coming off of both ends.; Arabic.; Related Work: Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573. Iẓhār al-asrār.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 156