[al-Kāfiyah]
Contributors: Hull, Helen R. (Helen Rose), 1888-1971, former owner; Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Published: 1581
Language: ara
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Arabic language; Early works to 1800; Grammar; Arabic Manuscripts
Work titles: Kāfiyah
Description: Book on Arabic grammar.
Notes: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: 7 long lines; border-ruled.

Script: Written in nastaʻlīq, with strong elements of naskh in black ink; pointed.

Decoration: Blue and gold headpiece (f. 1v); rubrications in red; border-rules and page-opening frame-rule in red.

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

Four stamps and an owner's note, mostly scrubbed (f. 1r); notations and calculations in ink (flyleaves i-iii at front of book).

Shelfmark: MS Or 448.

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Electronic reproduction. New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Libraries, 2020. Digitized as part of the Muslim World Manuscripts Project, 2018-2021, funded by CLIR.

Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002. Digital version conforms to: http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Gift of Helen R. Hull, 1968 (library bookplate inside front cover).

Arabic.

Dark brown leather with gilded central mandorla.

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