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Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah : manuscript
Creator
عجمي، نجم الدين سعيد.
Title
Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah : manuscript / Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd al-ʻAjamī.
حاشية على شرح الكافية : مخطوطة / نجم الدين سعيد العجمي.
Created
Place of production not identified, 1427.
Physical Description
1 volume ([205] leaves) ; 26 cm.
Language
Arabic
Notes
Title from vendor.
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Aʻin ʻalá itmāmih Yā man al-iʻānah mink. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī daʻā ilá kalimat al-ḥaqq bi-inʻāmih wa-hadā [hadá] li-iqtibās anwāʻ al-ʻulūm min kalāmih wa-naṣaba adillat al-yaqīn li-dhawī al-baṣāʼir min anāmih wa-rafaʻa aʻlām ṭālibī al-ʻulūm bi-ikrāmih wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʻalá Muḥammad khayr barīyatih wa-aqwāmih wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-mutasharrifīn bi-īmānih wa-Islāmih ..."
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. أعن على إتمامه يا من الإعانة منك. الحمد لله الذي دعا الى كلمة الحق بإنعامه وهدا [هدى] لاقتباس أنواع العلوم من كلامه ونصب أدلة اليقين لذوي البصائر من أنامه ورفع أعلام طاليي العلوم بإكرامه والصلوة والسلام على محمد خير بريته وأقوامه وعلى آله وأصحابه المتشرفين بإيمانه وإسلامه ..."
Secundo folio: al-Miftāḥ fī al-bayān
بداية الورقة الثانية: المفتاح في البيان
16.5 x 25.5 cm; written surface: 11.5 x 19 cm; 27 lines per page.
Binding: In marbled cardboard binding with flap and brown leather spine.
In medium nastaʻlīq script, in black ink on white aging paper; headings and keywords in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords.
Text of Ḥashiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah: folios 2b-205b.
On folio 1a: "Kāfiyah Sharḥ Najm al-Dīn". "Matn al-kitāb Najm al-Saʻīd".
على وجه الورقة 1: "كافية شرح نجم الدين". "متن الكتاب نجم السعيد".
On folios 1a-2a: Gramatical notes and verses of poetry in Arabic and Persian and an illegible ownership statement.
On folio 250b: Verses of poetry and some scribbles in Arabic and Persian.
At the lower left corner of folio 205b: A date "Rabīʻ al-Ākhir sanat thalāthīn wa-thamānimiʼah [830 H]"
في الزاوية اليسرى السفلى لظهر الورقة 205: تاريخ "ربيع الآخر سنة ثلثين وثمانمائة [830 ھ]"
Colophon: "Ākhir al-kitāb bi-ʻawn rabb [three unreadable words]"
الخاتمة: "آخر الكتاب بعون رب [ثلاث كلمات غير مقروءة]"
Translation of colophon: "The end of the book by the help of lord [three illegible words]"
In Arabic.
Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary.
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Summary
Gloss on a commentary on "al-Kāfiyah" (a treatise on Arabic grammar) of ʻUthmān ibn ʻUmar ibn al-Ḥājib (1175-1249), a grammarian and Malikī Islamic law scholar of Kurdish origin, born in Isnā (Egypt), grew up in Cairo, lived in Damascus and died in Alexandria (Egypt). The Kāfiyah was composed in verse and was commented upon by Ibn al-Ḥajib himself in a different work titled "al-Wafiyah" or "Sharḥ al-Wāfiyah naẓm al-Kāfiyah". The present manuscript is by Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd al-ʻAjamī (little known author). His name "Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd" is listed as a commentator on "al-Kāfiyah" in Brockelmann (G I:304, no. 22). The book seems to have been edited as a thesis by Yūsrī Maḥmūd ʻAlam al-Dīn under the title: "Sharḥ Kāfiyat Ibn al-Ḥajib / li-Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd al-ʻAjamī" (Kullīyat al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah (Banīn), al-Qāhirah, 1984). It is not clear on what commentary of the "Kāfiyah" is the present gloss. It might be on "al-Wafiyah" of Ibn al-Ḥājib itself (Cf. folio 2a: "Qāla al-muṣannif fī al-sharḥ" (the author said in the commentary). The date on folio 205b is Rabīʻ al-Ākhir, 830 (February/March, 1472). Name of copyist and place of copying not mentioned.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2017
References
Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd al-ʻAjamī, Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Najm al-Dīn Saʻīd al-ʻAjamī, Ḥāshiyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Kāfiyah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Arabic - 15th century.
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