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. 98L [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1b).
• Marginal and interlinear notes. Inscriptions, a tradition, and the seal of Solomon (upper pastedown, fol. (1)a-1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 192 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15-17 lines per page.
• Description: Overlining in red ; written in several hands ; some paper tinted light brown ; MS in good condition. Several missing folios.
• Origin: Probably from the late XVIIIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في ايضاح المعانى ونور قلوبنا بلوامع التبيان ...
• Colophon: ... احفظ الله عليهم الحق النبى وآله وسلم اجمعين تسليما كثيرا كثيرا

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla with pendants and cornerpieces and blind-tooled decorative edging. Blue paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

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

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 539.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Talkhīṣ al-bayān
• تلخيص البيان

OCLC

1432812444

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