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Subject(s)

• Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr b. 1160—Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Qism 3. Abridgment [Browse]
• سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر—مفتاح العلوم قسم 3 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—13th century [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—14th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Abdrigment of Part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 11 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The text is partially vocalized. Thick soft light cream paper (a few leaves darker), glossy, with pulp and a few lines visible. Interlinear and marginal ḥāshiyah. A few loose later leaves with annotations are placed between the originla leaves (counted in the modern foliation). Fol. 1 is a later addition, with short texts on the verso, one excerpted from Mīzān al-adab fī lisān al-ʻArab. Several inscriptions and short texts on fol. 2a-3a, including magical script and a partly wanting ownership statement. Short excerpts of several texts on fol. 81b-82a, including excerpts from the Dībājah al-muṭawwal by Hasan Çelebi.
• Inscription in Arabic script on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 449".
• Collation: Paper, fol. 80 ; 1¹⁰ (+1, fol. 1) 2-8¹⁰.
• Origin: Copy completed in Muḥarram 772 [July-Aug. 1370] by Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʻUthmān al-BRDūrī, in al-Diyār al-Miṣrīyah, in the Madrasah Shaykhū (colophon, fol. 81a in the modern foliation).
• Incipit: الحمد لله على ما انعم وعلم من البيان ما لم نعلم والصلوة على سيدنا محمد خير من نطق بالصواب ... اما بعد فلما كان علم البلاغة وتوابعها من اجلّ العلوم قدرا وادقها سرا
• Explicit: وجميع فواتح السور وخواتمها واردة على احسن الوجوه واكملها يظهر ذلك بالتامل مع التذكر لما تقدم

Binding note

Brown over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Covered with marbled paper. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Impression of two seals on fol. 1a, bearing respectively the inscription: "al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Rāghib" and "al-Sayyid Yaʻqūb", the second dated 1293 H. [1876]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 3879

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

163575986

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