Item Summary

Commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm (al-Maʻānī wa-al-bayān), a work on rhetoric by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح المفتاح / لسعد الدين التفتزاني
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Miftāḥ / li-Saʻd al-Dīn al-Taftazānī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 181Y
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8336hc41s
Publisher
Samarqand, [1434 or 1435]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1434
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 263, ii leaves: paper ; 254 x 160 (170 x 95) mm. bound to 255 x 165 mm.
Provenance
From the books of Aḥmad Najīb ibn Aḥmad Ṭāhir (ownership statement dated 1282 H. [1865 or 6] on fol. (i)a). Ownership statement signed ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz on fol 263b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 3869
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from note by a later hand on the fol. before fol. 1.
Number of lines per page varies, mostly 28. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Fol. 1 consists of two fol. pasted together, a later free end paper with inscription being pasted on the first original fol. Ḥāshīyah by several hands on the margins. Inscription and short texts in Ottoman Turkish on fol. (i)b and 1a. Label with inscription in Arabic script on the upper cover. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "243 ḥāʼ".
Copied in several places, and completed in 8-8 H. [Mach reads 838] in the Madrasat al-Sulṭān al-Aʻẓam wa-al-Khāqān al-Muʻaẓẓam Malik Mulūk al-ʻArab wa-al-ʻAjam al-Sulṭān al-Salāṭīn al-Sulṭān Ulugh Bīk in Samarqand, by Aḥmad ibn [--?] Maḥmūd [---?] (colophon with verses of poetry in Persian, fol. 260a). The name Aḥmad al-Sijistānī is also mentioned in the colophon.
Incipit: خير خبر توشح به صدر الكلام واحسن حديث ... وبعد فقد بعثنى فرط الشعف بتنبع الخواص
Binding Note
Dark brown leather (peeling) on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Both covers have a blind stamped central mandorla outlined in gold, with an outer border made of blind tooled and gold painted fillets and running patterns. Traces of a fore-edge flap. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Arabic language—Rhetoric—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Samarqand (Uzbekistan)—Intellectual life—15th century
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr b. 1160—Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Qism 3.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
534

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/a4a9e000-1aad-455e-acb7-4f6a57b95efe/manifest