Shāfiyah.

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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/​Created
[1811]
Description
i, 40, i leaves: paper ; 171 x 114 (110 x 63) mm. bound to 170 x 115 mm.

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    Summary note
    Neat copy of a short treatise on morphology.
    Notes
    • Ms. codex.
    • Title from inscription on fol. 1a.
    • Physical description: lines per page. Written in. Marginal and interlinear annotations, apparently by the sma ehand as the main text, chiefly excerpted from texts entitled "Wāfīyah" and "Ṣāfiyah". European paper with watermark. Pagination in black ink using Arabic numerals.
    • Chiefly quinions. The last words of each verso are repeated on the next recto.
    • Inscription in Arabic script on a label apsted on the upper cover: "Ṣ thā". Inscription in Arabic numerals on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "1594".
    • Origin: According to colophon, copied by Khuṭāfi Zādah al-Sayyid Muḥammad ʻUbayd Allāh Taqī al-Dīn Ibn al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj Aḥmad, known as Sayyid, at the end (salkh) of Shawwāl 1226 [Nov. 1811] (p. 69).
    • Incipit: بسم ... اعز الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله تعالى على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى اله وصحبه اجمعين وبعد فقد سالنى من لا يسعنى يسعنى (مضايقته ولا يوافقنى) مخالفته ان الحق بمقدمتى فى الاعراب مقدمة فى التصريف على نحوها ومقدمة فى الخط
    • Explicit: واما الحرف فلم يكتب منها بالياء غير بلى وعلى والى وحتى
    Binding note
    Bound in burgundy leather, with flap.Both covers are similarly gold-painted and tooled, with an outer frame consisting of a guilloche outlined by fillets defining a central panel with a smaller frame consisting of a double fillet. Embossed green paper on the fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.
    Provenance
    Impression of a circular seal on fol. 1a, with inscription: "al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm" (repeated on p. 69). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Mach, R. Yahuda, 3543
    • Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 305/II ; SI
    OCLC
    236092012
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