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Subject(s)

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Sharḥ al-mukhtaṣar [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. 423H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A gloss on al-Mukhtaṣar of Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī, 792 [1389/90] which is a short commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• A few marginal notes. The gloss mentioned in Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 408 seems to be different. Ownership signature, waqf statement and stamp on fol. 1a.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. (1) + 71 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Saturday Jumādá II 1078 by ʻAbd Allāh ibn Naṣīʻ? (fol. 71a).
• Incipit: بسم الله ... نحمدك اللهم على ما على اعطيتنا من سوائغ النعم
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ عن يد عبد [ه] الضعيف في ... في وقت الظهر في يوم السبت من شهر جماد[ى] الآخر سنة 1078

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and marbled paper.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

• Waqf in the name of ʻUthmān ibn Muṣṭafá, dated 1177 with seal impression (fol. 1a and 71a)
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 541.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 408.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, IV, p. 130, 147.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7208/9.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1322439827

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