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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. 92L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [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 caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal notes. Title also on lower edge of text block. Inscriptions on upper pastedown and fol. 1a. Inscription "D F, B 5" repeated on fol. 1a and 155b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 155 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: Probably from the XVIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ويه ثقتى الحمد لله رب العالمين ... فهذه جواش على الشرح المشهور لتلخيص المفتاح كنت قد قيدتها عليه ...
• Colophon: والحمد لله اولا و اخرا وصلى الله على محمج واله الطاهرين وسلم تسليما كثر كثيرا تم. تم الكتاب بعون الله الوهاب م م م م م

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding. Brown leather upper cover covered with paper with cutout showing red leather blind-stamped mandorla. Spine half red leather and half dark brown leather. Lower cover red leather with small blind-stamped mandorla and decorative blind-tooled edging.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 532.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

حواشي المصباح

Title from fol. 1a

• Ḥawāshī al-Miṣbāḥ

OCLC

1340422404

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