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Subject(s)

• Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr b. 1160—Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Qism 3. [Browse]
• سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر—مفتاح العلوم قسم 3 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm, by Sirāj al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1228 or 29), on rhetoric. The commentary is known as al-Misbāḥ fī sharḥ al-Miftāḥ. A note on the last leaf (fol. 196a, lower corner, inverted) indicates that this copy is likely to be written by the author himself.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from spine label.
• 31 lines per page. On some leaves, half line at the end of the page (see fol. 172a). Written in casual medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for "qāla" or "qawluh" and to overline the commented text. Biscuit paper with laid lines and pulp visible. A few later replacements (see fol. 194). Text on fol. 196b. Two spine labels with inscriptions: respectively title in Arabic script, and number "172" in Arabic and in Western numerals.
• Copy completed on a Friday at the end of Rabīʻ al-Ākhar 817 [or 819: 1414 or 1416] (colophon, fol. 196a).
• Incipit: نحمدك اللهم على ما هديتنا اليه من دقايق المعانى ببدايع البيان واطلعتنا عليه ... وبعد فقد طال ما جال فى صدرى ودار فى خلدي ان ار بنا للقسم الثالث من مفتاح العلوم شرحا ... قال القسم الثالث من الكتاب (فى علم المعانى والبيان) قال رتب الكتاب على ثلاثة اقسام وارد فيها بتكملة وفنين وتوجيهه ان علم العربية المسمى بعلم الادب

Binding note

Pale blue paper pasted over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather edges and spine (covered with repair in cloth). Paper pastedown and free endpaper.

Provenance

Acquired from Murād Bey Bārūdī, Beirut, 1925.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 522

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

81252490

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