Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Majmūʻah.
[مجموعة]

Authors

• Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, -1274
  ابن مالك، محمد بن عبد الله،
• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249
  ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر،
• Rasʻanī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq ibn Rizq Allāh, 1193-1262 or 1263
  رسعني، عبد الرزاق بن رزق الله،
• Thaʻlab, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, 815-904
  ثعلب، احمد بن يحيى،
• Luwāḥ, Sālim ibn Ghassān, 1489 or 1490-1573 or 1574
  لواح، سالم بن غسان،

Other related names

• Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman, former owner
  محمد بن حامد ابو عثمان،
• Cotheal, Alexander Isaac, 1804-1894, former owner
• Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944, former owner

Call number

MS Or 358
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14011092
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106031610
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_358.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14011092

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1711-1712

Summary

Collection of works bound together and copied in the same hand. The first six works discuss Arabic grammar and composition. The 7th and 8th works relate to reading and recitation of the Qurʼān. The final work deals with the rising and settings of the moon and planets and astronomy.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Iv, 126, vi leaves : 205 x 149 (145 x 100) mm, bound to 207 x 152 mm

Support

Laid paper

Binding

Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap; blind stamped central mandorla, four pendants along the vertical axis and cornerpieces with matching stamps on the flap.

Layout

17-19 long lines; some poetry in two columns.

Decoration

Rubrications in red; some red circles with black dots in the middle punctuate the text; sets of three red dots mark lines of poetry; three tables in red and black (f. 123v-124v).

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Presumed to be a gift of David Eugene Smith.
   
• Formerly owned by Mohammed bin Hamed bu Osman; given to Alexander Cotheal in June 1852 (note in pencil on inside back cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Alexander I. Cotheal (stamps f. 1r, 126v).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy, Arab--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Compilation manuscripts
• Tables (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Sharḥ al-qaṣīdah al-lāmiyyah al-musammāh abnīyat al-afʻāl fī ʻilm al-taṣrīf lil-Imām Jamāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Mālik
• fol. 95v — [Qaṣīdah] / Ibn al-Ḥājib al-Naḥwī
• fol. 96r — [Qaṣīdah] / ʻIzz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Rasʻanī
• fol. 97r — [Ḥikāyah: kān rajulan bi-al-Baṣrah yulaqqabu al-Ḍādī]
• fol. 97v — Min kitāb dīwān al-adab
• fol. 97v — Ikhtiyār faṣīḥ al-kalām / Abū al-ʻAbbās Thaʻlab
• fol. 116r — Fī qism al-ghanīmah / Sālim ibn Ghassān al-Luwāḥ
• fol. 116r — [Fī qirāʼat al-Qurʼān]
• fol. 119v — Fī maʻrifat manāzil al-qamr

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Stamp: "Alex I Cotheal"
• Insert recto — Library note
• Insert recto — Library note
• fol. 123v — Table
• fol. 124r — Table
• fol. 124v — Table
• fol. 126v — Stamp: "Alex I Cotheal"