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Subject(s)

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Muṭawwal [Browse]
• 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. 420H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Stamps [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on al-Muṭawwal of Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī, which is a commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī, which in turn is an abridgment of Miftāḥ al-ʻUlūm, the famous treatise on rhetoric by al-Sakkākī.

Notes

• Ms. codex
• Title from fol. (1)b.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On back of first page and preceding folio occur beginning of MS and several linguistic notes. Inscriptions on fol. 97b and the following folio.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 97 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 1091 (fol. 97a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال وبهذا يظهر ان ما ذهب اليه من ان اللام في الحمد لتعريف الجنس
• Colophon: المحد لله الموهل الى رسول الكريم 10091

Binding note

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

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Ownership signature of Muṣṭafá ibn Abū Bakr Bānīyah? Kūlī? Seal impression on fol. 1b.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 531.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1322288589

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