A gloss on al-Mukhtaṣar of al-Taftazānī, which is a short commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and glosses. Inscriptions (upper pastedown and fol. ia). Biographical note on ʻAbd Allah ibn Ḥusayn al-Yazdī (fol. ib). A second title is mentioned on the title page which is not present in the current volume.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 56 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page ; ruled.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Thursday 25 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 1105 by Asʻad ibn al-Ṭawīl (fol. 56b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه نستعين نحمدك اللهم علي ما اعطيتنا من سوابغ النعم وبوالغ الحكم ونصلى علي نبيك الهادي ...
Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقته نهار الخميس يوم خمس وعشرين في شهر ربيع الثاني الذي هو من شهور سنه 1105 وصلي الله وسلم علي سيدنا محمد وعلي اله وصحبه اجمعين امين
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Red paper pastedowns.
Provenance
Reader's signatures: ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Maydānī dated 1113; Muḥammad ibn Khalīl al-Ghazzī al-ʻĀmirī? dated 1159 (fol. ia). Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn [obscured]; Muḥammad Saʻīd al-Minqār with his seal impression; Muḥammad al-Saqāminī? dated 1150 (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 544.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1340422814
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