Details

Subject(s)

• Mulakhkhaṣ min ʻilm al-bayān [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. 430H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary, with grammatical analysis, on the verses quoted or referred to in Mulakhkhaṣ min ʻilm al-bayān. Unclear whether this might be a reference to Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī's Mulakhkhaṣ of Qazwīnī's treatise on rhetoric entitled Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Immediately after colophon occur a verse of poetry in Turkish and the year of copying. Grammatical notes on fol. (3)a
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 83 + (3) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21ines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining ; watermarks (anchor with star on top, roman-alphabet letters "AI" also "FC" with clover in between) ; MS in good condition but several folios are mended.
• Origin: Copied 981 (fol. 82b).
• Incipit: رب تمم بالخير. خود يغطي الفرع منه المؤتزر * لوعصر منها البان والمسك انعصر
• Colophon: قد وقع الفراغ من تحرير هذه النسخة الشريفة المبارکة في شهر رمضان في يوم چهارشنبه في وقت الظهر. تمام اولاي کتاب الحمد لله اچلدي فتح باب الحمد لله م

Binding note

Later? quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in dark brown leather and paper. Covers decorated with overlapping calligraphy.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 550.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

شرح ابيات اشعار للخماسي

Additional title on title page

• Sharḥ abyāt ashʻār lil-khumāsī

OCLC

1331406376

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