Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Qaṭr al-nadā wa-ball al-ṣadā.
قطر الندا وبل الصدا

Authors

• Ibn Hishām, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf, 1309-1360
  ابن هشام، عبد الله بن يوسف،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Jamālī, Yūsuf ibn Shaykh Muḥammad, former owner
  يوسف بن شيخ محمد الجمالي.
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 31
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2441500
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1083644130
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2441500

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1757

Summary

Clear copy of Ibn Hishām's grammar compendium. Two leaves have been sliced horizontally and are missing approximately the last 6 lines on each side (f. 11-12).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from introduction (f. 1v).
   
• Kabīkaj invocation on f. 1r.
   
• Catalog entry describing the manuscript pasted onto f. 1r.
   

Extent

50 leaves : 215 x 155 (155 x 90) mm bound to 217 x 162 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Laid paper over pasteboard with flap (Type II) and leather spine back. No decorations. Textblock is detached from cover.

Layout

25 long lines.

Decoration

Rubrications in red.

Script

Written in naskh in black and red; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Formerly owned by Yūsuf ibn Shaykh Muḥammad al-Jamālī (note dated 1170 AH [1757], f. 1r).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Arabic language--Syntax--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--17th century
• Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Qaṭr al-nadā wa-ball al-ṣadā.

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner's name: "Yūsuf ibn Shaykh Muḥammad al-Jamālī " dated 1170
• fol. 1r — Kabīkaj invocation
• fol. 1r — Notations
• fol. 1r — Catalog entry pasted in