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Item Summary
A gloss on al-Muṭawwal of Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī, which is a commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī, which in turn is an abridgment of Miftāḥ al-ʻUlūm, the famous treatise on rhetoric by al-Sakkākī.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- سيد على المطول
- Transliterated Title
- Sayyid ʻalá al-Muṭawwal
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 420H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dck643bb63m
- Publisher
- 1091 [1680 or 1681]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1680
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- (2), 97 leaves : paper ; 204 x 126 (160 x 68) mm. bound to 200 x 132 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signature of Muṣṭafá ibn Abū Bakr Bānīyah? Kūlī? Seal impression on fol. 1b.
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 531.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex
- Title from fol. (1)b.
- Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. On back of first page and preceding folio occur beginning of MS and several linguistic notes. Inscriptions on fol. 97b and the following folio.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. (2) + 97 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 23 lines per page.
- Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (coat-of-arms) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied 1091 (fol. 97a).
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال وبهذا يظهر ان ما ذهب اليه من ان اللام في الحمد لتعريف الجنس
- Colophon: المحد لله الموهل الى رسول الكريم 10091
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in dark brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with blind-tooled edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Pink paper pastedowns. Not currently sewn.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Muṭawwal
- Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān 1267 or 1268-1338—Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
- Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
- Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
- Blind tooled bindings
- Stamps
- Autographs
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 212
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7c384c6a-c01b-47bb-8276-ff10ad117f12/manifest

















