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Manuscript/Mixed Material Fawāyid wāfiyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah فوايد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية

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Title

  • Fawāyid wāfiyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah

Other Title

  • فوايد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية

Summary

  • Commentary explaining the difficulties in Ibn al-Ḥājib's Kāfiyah.

Names

  • Jāmī, 1414-1492
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Ḥājib, ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar,--1175-1249.--Kāfiyah
  • -  Arabic language--Syntax--Early works to 1800
  • -  Arabic language--Grammar--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Title from fol. 1b.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper: cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with red overlining; catchwords.
  • -  Brockelmann. GAL, GI, p. 304.13
  • -  Naskh; 21 lines in written area 13 x 6 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-231a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 6-032.
  • -  Binding; black half leather with black grain sides and flap; envelope binding; text block not attached to binding.
  • -  ‏Incipit: البسملة. الحمد لواليه والصلواة على نبيه على اله واصحابه المتادبين بادابه. اما بعد فهذه فوايد وافية بحل مشكلات الكافية للهلامة المشهور في المشارق والمغارب الشيخ ابن الحاجب ...
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: السبت الحادي عشر من رمضان المنتعطم في سلك شهور سنة سبع وتسعين وثمانمائه تم الكتاب بعناية الوهاب من عبد الضعيف [...] ابن محمد النجيف المحتاجين الى رحمة الرب اللطيف.

Medium

  • 231 leaves (21 lines), paper : bound ; 19.5 x 12.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PJ6151.I173 J3 1700zb

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017454359

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Jāmī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Fawāyid wāfiyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454359/.

APA citation style:

Jāmī, Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Fawāyid wāfiyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454359/.

MLA citation style:

Jāmī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Fawāyid wāfiyah bi-ḥall mushkilāt al-Kāfiyah. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2017454359/>.