IBN MALIK. Alfiya. XIXth century.
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Description
8vo, mm. 195x130; Contemporary binding in woodcut boards; pp. 2 nn. with title, 56, first bl. leaf.Text within a frame of rules. Nice Italic handwriting.
Fine edition in elegant characters of Arabic grammar composed in rhyme by Ibn Malik in the thirteenth century. The full title is al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya, and has been a major training text in Arab societies into the twentieth century, along with the Ajārūmīya, the Alfiya was one of the first books to be stored by the students of religious schools after the Koran; on this work at least 43 comments have been written.
Good state of preservation.
Fine edition in elegant characters of Arabic grammar composed in rhyme by Ibn Malik in the thirteenth century. The full title is al-Khulāsa al-alfiyya, and has been a major training text in Arab societies into the twentieth century, along with the Ajārūmīya, the Alfiya was one of the first books to be stored by the students of religious schools after the Koran; on this work at least 43 comments have been written.
Good state of preservation.
