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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]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 424H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A short commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. After the colophon occurs a statement that the MS was copied for al-Muṭahhar ibn al-Qāsim ibn Amīr al-Muʼminīn.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 126 + (1) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; overlining and other use of red ; vowel signs ; paper faintly pink-colored ; MS in good condition except several folios are worm-eaten and mended.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 3 Rabīʻ II [1]070 by Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn ? (fol. 126b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في ايضاح المعاني
• Colophon: کان الفراغ من رقمه يوم الرتوع المبارك 3 شهر ربيع الاخر من شهور سنة 070 [1]هـ

Binding note

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

Provenance

• Ownership signatures: al-Ḥusayn ibn Qā[?] al-Salafī, Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyá al-Salafī dated 1192?, and two obscured names (fol. 1a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 536.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 404.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, pp. 151/2.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 555/6¹.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7206/7.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 4386², 4398/9.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 307/8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرح المختصر

Title from Hitti

• Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar

OCLC

1322441155

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