Item Summary

An encyclopedia discussing a hundred and fifty sciences. The work is divided into four sections : (1) The merit of knowledge, teaching and learning; (2) the relation of the pupil to his master and his tasks; (3) duties and conduct of the master; (4) the relationship between the way of speculation and the way of elucidation.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مفتاح ال[سعادة] ومصباح السيادة / تأليف طاشكبري‌زادة.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Miftāḥ al-[saʻādah] wa-miṣbāḥ al-siyādah / taʼlīf Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah.
Call Number
2024-0004Q
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 493Hq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc5h73q789v
Publisher
18 Ṣafar 1147 [July 20, 1734]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1734
Format
Manuscript
Extent
258 leaves : paper ; 290 x 197 (200 x 140) mm bound to 290 x 210 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signatures: Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʻAbd al-Kathīr al-Ghardīs?al-Taghlibī, obscured signature (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1136.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), VI, p. 14.
Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VI, p. 200.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 16.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal notes and summaries. Inscriptions on title page including an extract from Kashf al-ẓunūn about the work.
Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 258 + (1) ; folios signed: 1-26 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 29 lines per page.
Description: Overwriting in red ; some vowel signs ; edges trimmed ; watermarks (three crescents; hills with cross) ; MS in good condition but worm-eaten and mended; several folios stained with dampness.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed Tuesday 18 Ṣafar 1147 by Saʻīd ibn Aḥmad Tammān (fol. 258b).
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. بديع بيان لايحتذى مثاله ومنيع تبيان لا يختطى مناله ... اما بعد فهذه بث لما وقر في صدري من العلوم الفاخرة ...
Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الثلثاء 18 من صفر سنة 1147 على يد افقر العباد الى الحنان المنان سعيد بن احمد تمّان لطف الله بهما وبالمسلمين اجمعين امين
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in greenish-brown leather. Color-stamped mandorla surrounded by gold-tooled and dot-punched design, gold-stamped cornerpieces and blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Gold-stamped design on flap fore-edge. In slipcover of brown leather and marbled paper (290 x 200).

Discovery Information

Subject
Classification of sciences—Early works to 1800
Learning and scholarship—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Autographs
Gold tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
545

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa033b9d-2c39-4675-abfa-37d1424b201e/manifest