Item Summary

Commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Sirāj al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626-1229), on ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح مفتاح السكاكي / للعلامة الشيرازي.
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ Miftāḥ al-Sakkākī / lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shīrāzī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 412H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/73666455j
Publisher
[Najaf], [1326]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1326
Format
Manuscript
Extent
i, 170, i leaves : paper ; 245 x 175 (200 x 130) mm bound to 250 x 185 mm
Provenance
Reading statement dated Wednesday 24 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1247 [April 25, 1832] on fol. 170a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 518
Brockelmann, C. GAL, I, 294 (16/1. cmt. 6) ; SI 515 (16/1. cmt. 1b)
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from tail of text block. The title appears in various forms by several hands on fol. 2a: "al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sharḥ Miʻyār al-ʻulūm", "Miṣbāḥ fī al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shīrāzī ... ʻalá matn ... al-Sakkākī"
Fol. 2 consists of a modern sheet of blue paper with mention of the title, pasted on the recto of the original fol. The blue sheet has been torn, revealing the inscriptions on the original recto, including titles and ownership statements. Inscriptions in several hands on fol. 1a-b and 170b, including verses of poetry and a gift statement (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 170, i; i (modern free endpaper) 1-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰ (+2, at the end of the quire) i (modern free endpaper); catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered (see fol. 11a, p. 23) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; thick cream paper with pulp visible. According to the numbering of the quires and to the catchword, two quires missing between fol. 10 and 11 (see the "4" on fol. 11a).
Origin: Copy completed in Shaʻbān 726 [July-Aug. 1326] by Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al- ...? al- ...? in al-Mashhad al-muqaddas al-Murtaḍawī [Najaf] (colophon, fol. 170a).
Incipit: الحمد لله الذى خصّص نوع الانسان بالنطق والفصاحة وشرّفه ... اما بعد فانّ احوج خلق الله اليه محمود بن مسعود بن مصلح.
Explicit: هو القلوب لا الابصار وهذا موضع من علم المعانى كثيرة محاسنه وافرة لطايفه والحمد لله والصلوة على محمد واله والسلم تم الجزان فى هذا المجلد.
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in burgundy leather over cardboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. The covers have a border consisting of a roll in silver. Yellow paper pastedowns and free endpaper. Slip-case in burgundy and green leather with the same roll. The fore-edge flap of the case is lost. It was apparently extant when Houtsma wrote his description (see mention of the title "Miftāḥ al-mutaʻallim", which probably appeared on the flap). Hitti also mentions that the case bears a title. Multi-colored endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr 1160-—Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm Part 3.
Arabic language—Rhetoric
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Headbands
Silver tooled bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
363

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/42f0b9fa-3368-4526-b638-cfe3009e88ba/manifest