Details

Subject(s)

• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 413H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. Qism 3. [Browse]
• سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر، 1160- مفتاح العلوم. قسم 3. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻUlūm.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• Two marginal notes. Three lines of poetry on folio (1)a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 17 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 28 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; yellow-tinted paper except fol. 5-6 red-tinted ; watermarks (fol. (1): roman-alphabet letters "GC", bird?; fol. 5-6: unidentified) ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله على ما انعم وعلم من البيان
• Colophon: تمام الختام بحمده من من علينا باتمام طبع هذا المتن الفخيم الملخص من الفن الجسيم المسمى بتلخيص المعاني المنسوب الى الفاضل الاشم والکامل الاطم [الاعظم] افضل المتأخرين اکمل المتبحرين محمد بن عبد الرحمن القزويني المشهور بين الانام بخطيب جامع دمشق الشام

Binding note

Covered in green marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 519.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 402/3, VI, p. 19.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 125/6.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7187/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1317710121

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