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Subject(s)

• Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1267 or 1268-1338—Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Scribe

• Baḥrī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī [Browse]

Related name

• بحري، احمد بن علي [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 415H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from table of contents (fol. (2)b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Before title page occur two damaged folios containing a table of contents and some calculations wrapped in a folded folio with watermarks. Fol. 173b has a stamp impression overlaying the text, and a count of the written sheets, 173.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (4) + 173 ; catchwords ; quires signed: 2-18 ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 31 lines per page.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; MS in very good condition but several folios are mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied by Aḥmad ibn ʻĀl[ī] al-Baḥrī al-Mālikī (fol. 173b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... الحمد لله الذي الهمنا حقايق المعاني ودقايق البيان
• Colophon: على يد الفقير بن الفقير احمد بن عل [علي] البحري المالکي غفر الله تعال [تعالى] ذنوبه وستر عيوبه في الدنيا والآخرة وختم له بالحسنى والمسلمين اجمعين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين وسلام عل [على] المرسلين والحمد لله رب العالمين ولا حول ولا قوة الا بالله العلي العظيم تم الکتاب

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 524.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 404.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 152/3.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 553/4.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 983.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7191/2.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1322277082

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