[Kāfīyah].
[كافية].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar, 1175-1249.

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner.

بركوى, محمد افندى، approximately 1522-1573،

Standardized Title:

Kāfiyah. Selections.

كافية. Selections.

Language:

Arabic

Subjects (All):

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

Arabic language.

Arabic language--Grammar.

Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic.

Manuscripts, 17th century.

Manuscripts, 18th century.

codices (bound manuscripts)

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (library bookplate inside front cover).

Physical Description:

164 leaves : paper ; 197 x 115 (122 x 50, 125 x 53) mm bound to 192 x 130 mm

Place of Publication:

[between 1614 and 1750?]

Language Note:

Arabic.

Summary:

Two works on Arabic grammar; copied in two different hands and bound together. The first work begins abruptly.

Contents:

1. f. 1v-80r: Kāfīyah [incomplete]

2. f. 83v-164v: [Iẓhār al-asrār]

Notes:

Titles supplied by cataloger.

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

Layout: Written in 7 long lines; border-ruled in two styles; some marginalia.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed and partially vocalized.

Decoration: First text border-ruled in double red with a single red page-opening frame rule. Second text ruled in gold for a headpiece on the opening page with polychrome textblock border-rules and page-opening frame rule (f. 83v-84r); textblock on all other pages border-ruled in red with the page-opening framed in red. Rubrications in red in both texts.

Binding: Bound in brown leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); central mandorla paper onlay and blind ruled frame with coordinating onlay and rules on flap; gold embossed paper doublure.

Origin: The first text was completed in 1023 A.H. (1614 CE) (f. 80r). The second text is undated, but was probably copied later, perhaps in the later 17th or 18th century.

Several watermarks: In the first work, a crown-crescent, and a flower; in the second work, a crown over the initials GF and FL and a full page design of a central oval with several curling points coming off of both ends.

Cited as:

CAJS Rar Ms 156

Contains:

Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, approximately 1522-1573. Iẓhār al-asrār.

بركوى, محمد افندى، approximately 1522-1573، اظهار الاسرار.

OCLC:

1130589830