Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Rhetoric—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a treatise on rhetoric.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from illuminated title page (fol. 3a).
• Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and red (fol. 3a). The text is framed within a frame consisting of a line in gold outlined in black and a blue line on fol. 3b-4a. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Several inscriptions on fol. 3a, including ownership statements and kabīkaj. Fol. 1-2 and 165-166 are later additions, with inscriptions.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "95". Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on the doublure of the upper cover: "123".
• Origin: Copy completed in the first decade of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 825 [Feb.-March 1422], in Cairo ("al-Qāhirah") (colophon, fol. 164b).
• Collation: Paper, fol. 164, ii ; ii (later added fol.; fol. 1-2 in the modern foliation) 1⁸ (-1 before fol. 3) 2-3¹⁰ 4¹² 5-16¹⁰ 17⁴ (-1 after fol. 164) ii (later added fol.) ; the quires are numbered in red ink using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-Thālith" (see fol. 20a), partly cut off due to the trimming of the pages ; catchword on the verso of some leaves.
• Incipit: قال شيخنا بقية السلف وعلامة العصر الشيخ تقى الدين ابو بكر بن حجة الحنفى الحموى منشى دوادين الانشآ الشريف بالديار المصرية والممالك الاسلامية المحروسة ... الحمد لله الذى ارشدنا الى كشف اللثام عن وجه التورية والاستخدام وابرز وجهها مقهرًا وكان في غيوم الاشكال قد تحجّب ... [4ب] ... وبعد فانى ما نسجت هذه الديباجة على منوال التورية الذى نسج الحريرى عليه الا لامر
• Explicit: لا يحفى على اهل الذوق السليم فان قافيه مصطلم فى بيت الشيخ صفى الدين تمجها الاذواق والله اعلم

Binding note

Beige cloth covering a brown leather binding with fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Doublure in the same cloth.

Provenance

Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 3a. Impressions of a seal with the inscription: "ʻAbd al-Rāziq 1248" on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3926
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, II, 19/17 ; SII

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

162635603

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