Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Kāfīyah. / [كافية]

Authors

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249 ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر،
• Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573 بركوى, محمد افندى،

Other related names

• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 156
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977621353203681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1130589830
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/cajs_rarms156.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1614 and 1750?

Summary

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

Notes

• Titles supplied by cataloger.
   
• 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.
   

Extent

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

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled in two styles; some marginalia.

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.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Manuscripts, 18th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Onlays (decorative components)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Kāfīyah].
• fol. 83v — [Iẓhār al-asrār]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• fol. 80v — Notations
• fol. 81v — Notations
• fol. 82r — Notations
• fol. 82v — Notations
• fol. 83v — Gold border-rules
• fol. 84r — Gold border-rules