Details

Subject(s)

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Muṭawwal [Browse]
• تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر—مطول [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a commentary on the long commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389) on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, an abdrigment by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazwīnī (d. 739/1338) of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229), on rhetoric (al-Maʻānī wa-al-bayān).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 107a).
• Physical description: 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink. The text is vocalized. Gold outlined in black for "qawluh" and "aqūl". Basmallah in gold outlined in black with vocalization in blue ink. Blue ink for "wa-baʻd". Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Drawing (floral motif) on the upper margin of fol. 1b. Ḥāshiyah on the margin, apparently by the same hand as the main text. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a, including verses of poetry in Persian.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "---(?) 7". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 915".
• Origin: Copy completed on a Wednesday in 836 H. The colophon states that this is the copy of Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan(colophon, fol. 107a, followed by verses of poetry).
• Incipit: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على سيد المرسلين محمد واله اجمعين اما بعد فهذه حواش على الشرح المشهور لتلخيص المفتاح كنت قد قيجتها عليه مجملة حال ما قرأه بعض احبتى ... قوله وبهذا يظهر انّ ما ذهب اليه صاحب الكشاف من ان اللام فى الحمد لتعريف الجنس دون الاستغراق الى آخره اقول يريد انّ اختصاص جنس الحمد بالله تعالى يستلزم اختصاص جميع المحامد به
• Explicit: قوله ومثل الرقطاء الرقطة سواد يشوبه نقط بياض يقال دجاحة رقطاء

Binding note

Dark orange paper over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Pink-dyed paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Provenance

Ownership statement and impressions of two seals on fol. 1a, one in the name of Nūḥādī Zade(?), with seal reading: "al-Sayyid Aḥmad Nūrī", dated 1274 H. ; the other a seal, reading "Muṣtafá Shawkat", dated 1287 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3884

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

حواشي السيد السند على المطول

Title in an inscription on fol. 1a

• Ḥawāshī al-Sayyid al-Sind ʻalá al-Muṭawwal

OCLC

162553016

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