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مختصر في المعاني
Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī.
Author
Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
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تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر
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Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[1640]
Description
208 leaves: paper ; 208 x 135 (135 x 75) mm. bound to 208 x 140 mm.
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Notes
Special Collections - Manuscripts
Islamic manuscripts, Garrett no. 1B
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Subject(s)
Arabic language
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Rhetoric
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14th century
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1267 or 1268-1338
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Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
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Summary note
Shorter commentary by al-Taftazānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d. 739/1338), an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). This commentary is dedicated to Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Sulṭān Maḥmūd Jān Bey (see preamble, fol. 3a, l. 2-3).
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from inscription on fol. 1b.
Physical description: 16 lines per page. Written in small nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red. European paper with watermark. Marginal annotations. Short excerpts from several texts on fol. 1a.
Collation: Paper, fol. 208 ; 1-20¹⁰ 21⁸.
Two spine labels (vertical), reading respectively: "Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī (partly wanting) lil-Taftazānī", and "1" in Arabic and Western numerals.
Origin: Copy completed on a Saturday ("yawm dūshambeh") in Ṣafar 1050 [May-June 1640] by ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Yūsuf (colophon on fol. 207a, followed by two lines of poetry in Persian).
Incipit: نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان فى ايضاح المعانى ونوّر قلوبنا بلوامع البيان ... فيقول العبد ... مسعود بن عمز المدعو بسعد التفتزانى ... قد شرحت فيما مضا تلخيص المفتاح ... [3أ] ... بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد هو الثنا باللسان على قصد التعظيم سواء يتعلق بالنعمة او غيرها
Explicit: كلّا من السور بالنسبة الى المعنى الذى يتضمّنه مشتملة على لطف الفاتحة ومنظومة على حسن الخاتمة ختم الله لنا بالحسنى و يتم لنا الفوز بالذخر الاسنى بحق النبى وآله واصحابه اجمعين والله اعلم بالصواب واليه المزجع والماب
Binding note
Paper pasted on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine and edges. Paper pastedowns.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1925, from the books of Murād Bey al-Bārūdī (Beirut).
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 540
OCLC
164609713
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