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Title

Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar ʻalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik.
شرح مختصر على ألفية ابن مالك

Authors

• Makkūdī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, -1404 or 1405
  مكودي، عبد الرحمن بن علي،
• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274
  ابن مالك، محمد بن عبد الله،

Other related names

• Jastrow, Marcus, 1829-1903, former owner
• Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1916
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977406946103681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1061859451

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 1206 (1792)

Place

North Africa?

Summary

Abridged commentary on a work of grammar by Ibn Mālik known as the Alfīyah.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Some leaves have been replaced and copied in different hands; the work is written on several different types of paper and in at least three hands, all using maghribi script.
   

Extent

214 leaves : 215 x 160 (140 x 95) mm bound to 215 x 170 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil added, upper left recto (except f. 2, which is marked on verso); catchwords lower left versos.

Support

Paper

Binding

The body of the book is completely detached from the cover. This cover does not appear ever to have been bound onto the book, but is wrapped around it to give the appearance of a bound volume. The covers are light grayish-brown textile over pasteboard with flap (Type II); pastedowns on inside covers and flap are reused leaves from another text.

Layout

22-27 long lines; some pages frame-ruled; many marginal notations.

Script

Written in maghribi script using brown ink.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Marcus Jastrow and Morris Jastrow, Jr.
   
• Accessioned, 1934.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Commentaries
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ Mukhtaṣar ʻalá Alfīyat Ibn Mālik.