Description of Columbia University MS Or 448: al-Kāfiyah Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 448: al-Kāfiyah are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 448: al-Kāfiyah. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. 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). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 448 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 Book on Arabic grammar. Arabic al-Kāfiyah [الكافية] Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249 ابن الحاجب، عثمان بن عمر، former owner Hull, Helen R. 1888-1971 1v [al-Kāfiyah].

paper

 iv, 90, ii leaves : 142 x 87 (82 x 46) mm, bound to 142 x 85 mm 7 long lines; border-ruled. Written in nastaʻlīq, with strong elements of naskh in black ink; pointed. Blue and gold headpiece (f. 1v); rubrications in red; border-rules and page-opening frame-rule in red. Library bookplate Library donor plate Notations in ink Calculations in ink Notations in ink Notations in ink Notations in ink Stamps Notation in ink Illuminated headpiece

Dark brown leather with gilded central mandorla.

Copy completed at the end of Dhū al-Ḥijjah 988 A.H. (f. 90v).

1581 Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover). Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Codices (bound manuscripts) Manuscripts (documents) Illuminations (painting) Stamps (Provenance) Annotations (Provenance)