Details

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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 416H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. First half of MS is heavily annotated.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 236 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition but several folios are mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى الهمنا حقايق المعانى ورقايق البيان ... وبعد فان احق الفضايل بالتقدم واسبقها في اسبحباب التعظيم
• Colophon: وتم بعون الله

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-tooled mandorla and edging. Leather doublures. Possibly a type II binding lacking the flap.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Title page has four seal impressions including: al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim; [?] Ibn Ṣāliḥ, and ʻĀdil Ṣāliḥ. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 425.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1322278305

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