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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 23
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9914691813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122448383

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

North Africa?

Summary

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

Notes

• Title from introduction (f. 1r).
   

Watermark

Centrally positioned, cross inside pointed oval with vegetal motifs on either side over the initial C in a circle over another circle.

Extent

168 leaves : 205 x 150 (150 x 100) mm bound to 203 x 160 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

The body of the book is completely detached from the leather 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 brown leather with flap (Type II) with blind tooled frames and edging around a blind stamped red onlay central mandorla on front, back, and flap. Foredge hinge doublure is red leather.

Layout

25-27 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red. One table (f. 72v).

Script

Written in maghribi script in brown ink by at least two different hands; pointed, unvocalized.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
• Codices
• Commentaries
• Tables (documents)
• Onlays
• Envelope flaps (features)

Licenses

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Table of contents

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

Decorations

• fol. 37v — Table