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. 418H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. Fol. 1-2 have numerous inscriptions including: kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms), lines of poetry, a count of sheets in the book (217), sayings, guidance on cleaning the dead, and grammatical notes.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 206 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining and other use of red ; MS by different hands ; MS in fair condition, but several folios are mended and worm-eaten.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي الهمنا حقايق المعاني ودقايق البيان ... وبعد فان احق الفضائل رالتقديم
• Colophon: والحمد لله على التوفيق ومنه الهداية الى سوا الطريق

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled edging on covers. Blind-tooled edging on spine and flap. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Signature of Abī Afqar al-Warī ʻAlāʼ al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūnus dated 1009.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 527.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1322278542

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