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

Title

al-Kāfiyah
[الكافية]

Authors

• Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249
  ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر،

Other related names

• Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971, former owner

Call number

MS Or 448
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14635464
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1145170406
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_448.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14635464

Publisher

Columbia University

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

1581

Summary

Book on Arabic grammar.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Four stamps and an owner's note, mostly scrubbed (f. 1r); notations and calculations in ink (flyleaves i-iii at front of book).
   

Extent

Iv, 90, ii leaves : 142 x 87 (82 x 46) mm, bound to 142 x 85 mm

Support

Paper

Binding

Dark brown leather with gilded central mandorla.

Layout

7 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Blue and gold headpiece (f. 1v); rubrications in red; border-rules and page-opening frame-rule in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq, with strong elements of naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Stamps (Provenance)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [al-Kāfiyah].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Library bookplate
• Inside front cover — Library donor plate
• fol. 1r — Stamps
• fol. 1r — Notation in ink
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece