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
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1680
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.

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