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Subject(s)

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Mukhtaṣar al-maʻānī [Browse]
• Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1267 or 1268-1338—Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Isfarāyīnī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad -1285—Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ [Browse]
• Muṭarrizī, Nāṣir ibn ʻAbd al-Sayyid 1144-1213—Miṣbāḥ [Browse]
• Arabic language—Grammar—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arithmetic—Early works to 1900 [Browse]
• Mathematics, Arab—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 425H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• tables (documents) [Browse]
• diagrams [Browse]

Contains

• Khiṭāʼī, ʻUthmān, active 15th century. Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Mukhtaṣar. [Browse]
• خطائي، عثمان، active 15th century. حاشية على المختصر. [Browse]
• ʻĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, 1547-1621. Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb. [Browse]
• عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين، 1547-1621. خلاصة الحساب. [Browse]
• Ḥafīd al-Saʻd, Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyá, -1510 or 1511. Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Mukhtaṣar. [Browse]
• حفيد السعد، احمد بن يحيى، -1510 or 1511. حاشية على المختصر. [Browse]

Summary note

Two glosses on al-Mukhtaṣar of al-Taftazānī, a commentary on the preface to the Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ, and a work on arithmetic.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses; some tables and diagrams. Evidence that the edges of at least the third work have been trimmed.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 120 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17-23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red and black ; watermarks (countermark roman-alphabet initials "RA" with clover; crown-star-crescent; hats?, countermark with roman-alphabet initials "FC[?]") ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten.
• Origin: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Mukhtaṣar] Copied end of Ramaḍān 1074 (fol. 50a) -- [Sharḥ ʻalá Dībājat] Copied 1068 by Muṣṭafá ibn Ḥusayn (fol. 63b)
• Incipit: [حاشية على المختصر 1] نحمدك اللهم على ما على اعطيتنا من سوابغ النعم -- [شرح على ديباجة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. انّ حرف من [الـ]حروف المشبهة بالفعل الناصبة للاسم -- [خلاصة الحساب] بسم الله ... نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجميع نعمه عدد -- [حاشية على المختصر 2] قوله نحمدك انما اختار الحمد على الشکر
• Colophon: [حاشية على المختصر 1] تمت فراغ في اواخر رمضان المبارك سنة اربع وسبعين والف م * قد تم هذه النسخة الشريف في مدرسة ابو ايوب انصارى عليه رحمة البارى -- [شرح على ديباجة] تم الکتاب بعون الله [الـ]ملك الوهاب في يد عبد الضعف مصطفى بن حسين غفر الله ذنوبهما سنة ثماني وستين والف... تم 1068 -- [خلاصة الحساب] فاحفظ وصيتي اليك والله حفيظ عليك. تم الکتاب بعون الله الوهاب -- [حاشية على المختصر 2] اللهم الا ان يراد بالغير الخلاف فانه لا يلزم في العهد الخارجي ...

Binding note

Later half-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark red leather and marbled paper.

Contents

• 1. fol. 1b-50a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Mukhtaṣar] A gloss on al-Mukhtaṣar of al-Taftazānī, which is a short commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ. Immediately after colophon occurs a statement that MS was copied in the school of Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī.
• 2. fol. 51b-63b: [Sharḥ ʻalá Dībājat Sharḥ al-Miṣbāḥ] A commentary on the preface to the Ḍawʼ al-Miṣbāḥ.
• 3. fol. 65b-84b: [Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb] A compendium of arithmetic. Contains tables and diagrams.
• 4. fol. 85b-120a: [Ḥāshiyah ʻalá al-Mukhtaṣar] A gloss on al-Mukhtaṣar of al-Taftazānī, which is a short commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ. Incomplete at end.

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 542, 347, 1043, 546.
• Ḥ̣ājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), III, p. 168; II, p. 406
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, V, pp. 180/1, VII, pp. 89/90; IV, p. 129.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 5998, 7211.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Sharḥ ʻalá Dībājat Sharḥ al-Miṣbāḥ.
• شرح على ديباجة شرح المصباح.

OCLC

1322441902

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