Author
Murādī ibn Umm Qāsim, al-Ḥasan ibn Qāsim, -1348 or 1349.
Publication Date
[1680-1730]
Subject
Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,, Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, /
-1274., Ibn Mālik, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, / -1274. /
Alfīyah., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic /
Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan /
Ann Arbor., Arabic language, Arabic language /
Grammar, Arabic language / Grammar /
Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
No
Manuscript
Unknown
Pages Count
230
Physical Dimensions
230 leaves : paper ; 324 x 220 (253 x 153) mm. bound to 324 x 228 mm
Library
HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID
006768700
Library Location
University of Michigan
Notes
About: Fine copy of the commentary by Badr al-Dīn Ḥasan ibn Umm Qāsim al-Murādī on Ibn Mālik's (d. 672/1273) al-Alfīyah, or al-Khulāṣh fī al-naḥw. Table of contents precedes text. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 132
Origin: Lacks dated colophon ; paper suggests late 17th century or early 18th century.
Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No. 97. Commentary on Alfiyah."
Binding: Pasteboards faced in combed marbled paper (see envelope flap) with red leather over spine, fore-edge flap, and edges/turn-ins (marbled paper faced, leather edged, framed binding) ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in laid paper ; sewn in cream thread, two stations ; worked endbands in red, blue and cream, fair condition ; overall in poor condition with significant abrasion, lifting and losses of paper and leather, delamination of boards, staining, etc.
Support: European laid paper with 10-11 laid lines per cm. (horizontal) and chain lines spaced 28 mm. apart ; well-sized and burnished ; watermarks include three hats (compare Heawood 2599), crown with other motifs, scrollwork ; some staining.
Decoration: Key words, text being commented upon (matn), and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; occasional textual dividers in the form of red discs.
Script: Naskh ; clear Turkish hand ; serifless ; effect of slight tilt to the left ; many open counters ; kāf mashkūlah (mashqūqah) preferred ; pointing in distinct dots ; many tapered descenders ; partially vocalized (text of matn).
Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, VI+1 (13), 17 VI(217), VI+1 (230), i ; chiefly sexternions ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes back flyleaf and skips two pages between pp.361-362).
Explicit: "فاحمد الله مصليا على محمد خير نبي ارسلا واله العزاء الكرام البرره وصحبه المنتخبين الخيره نجز [؟] بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على اشرف الخلق سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما كثيرا والحمد لله رب العالمين
Incipit: "الحمد لله والشكر له وصلوته على اشرف نبي ارسله ... وبعد فهذا توضيح لمقاصد الفية بن مالك رحمة الله [كذا] يجلوا معانيها على طلابها ويظهر محاسنها لخطابها ..."
Title from opening on p.4.
Ms. codex.
Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No. 97. Commentary on Alfiyah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "99" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; on 'title page' (p.3) ownership statement (accompanied by oval seal impression) "تملكه الفقير السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتى بارزنجان عفى عنه" and waqf statement "وقف السيد الحاج عبد الله المفتى بكتبخانه المعموره بارزنجان سنه ١١۸۱" in name of al-Sayyid al-Ḥājj ʻAbd Allāh, muftī in Erzincan ; numerous glosses and marginal corrections ; occasional notabilia (sideheads).
