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Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 193; 18.7 x 14 cm.; written surface 11-11.5 x 8-8.5 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in Fārisi; with catchwords; entries in red.
• A fragment of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm, the famous treatise on rhetoric.
• Beg.: القسم الثالث من الکتاب في علمي المعاني والبىان وفىه مقدمة لبىان حدّي العلمىن
• Colophon: والله الموفق للصواب بمنه وکرمه وخفي لطفه وصلى الله على سىدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسلىما دائما. تمت
• Marginal notes. MS incomplete at the beginning; in different hands. In fair condition; Arabic binding with flap. Probably from the XVIIth century.
• Acquired from Bārūdī, Beirūt, A.D. 1925.
• ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, pp. 15/6; Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7184.
• Printed in Cairo, A.H. 1317, 1318.

OCLC

1340424202

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