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Subject(s)

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Muṭawwal [Browse]
• تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر—مطول [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Gloss on the long commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftazānī (d. 791/1389) on Takhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, and abrigment of Part Three Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229), on rhetoric (al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān). The text appears to be incomplete at end (see Explicit and colophon note).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inscription on fol. 2a.
• Physical description: 23 lines per page. Written in small cursive nastaʻlīq in black ink with use of red mainly for "qawluhu" and overlining. Light cream paper with pulp, laid and chain lines visible. Several inscriptions, including verses of poetry in Persian, on fol. 1a and 2a. Title on tail of text block.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 64, x ; 1-7⁸ 8⁸ (+1, end of quire, fol. 58) 9⁶ + x (later added quinion, European paper) ; last words of the verso repeated at the beginning of the next recto.
• Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Lisān 37". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of upper cover: "Ḥā 936".
• Origin: Copy completed in 873 by ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm (colophon, fol. 64b).
• Incipit: قال الشارح رحمه الحمد لله وهو قد ذكر فكفينا مؤمنة قوله الهمنا الالهام ايقاع الشىء من الخير فى القلب بطريق الفيض
• Explicit and colophon: باعتبار انه لا تخصصت التجريد به بحكم ان مطلوبها هو الذكر وهو نفس المذكور صريحا قوله تمت بعون الله الملك الوهاب على يد العبد الضعيف على بن ابراهم فى تاريخ سنه ثلث وسبعين وثمانمايه

Binding note

Red-brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Blind obloid stamp on both covers, with an outer frame consisting of fillets. Similar frame on envelope flap, with a blind stamped medallion. Paper pastedown.

Provenance

From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 1287 H. [1870 or 71] on fol. 1a). Ownership statement in the name of ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz known as Muʼmin Zade, mudarris in the madrasah Suhayl Bey (fol. 2a). Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 3894
• Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 295 (Auszüge aus dem 3. Teil 1/Cmtare 4A; Gloss ee) ; SI

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

حاشيه مطول

Title on tail of text block

• Ḥāshiyah-i Muṭawwal

OCLC

164869652

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