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عقود الدررفي حل ابيات المطول والمختصر.
ʻUqūd al-durar fī ḥall abyāt al-Muṭawwal wa-al-Mukhtaṣar.
1765
Item Summary
A commentary on the verses of poetry quoted or referred to in al-Muṭawwal and al-Mukhtaṣar, the long and short commentaries of ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- عقود الدررفي حل ابيات المطول والمختصر.
- Transliterated Title
- ʻUqūd al-durar fī ḥall abyāt al-Muṭawwal wa-al-Mukhtaṣar.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 428H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcdj52wg162
- Publisher
- 14 Shawwāl 1178 [April 6, 1765]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1765
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 102 leaves : paper ; 226 x 166 (170 x 115) mm. bound to 225 x 166 mm.
- Provenance
- Ownership signatures (fol. 1a): Muḥammad, [second signature obliterated]. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 548.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (fol. 7a).
- A few marginal notes; marginal summaries. Two lines of verse by ʻAbd Allāh ... al-Fānī and historical snippets from 1186 and 1191 on fol. 1a. Alphabetical index of the verses on folios 3b-5b. Title appears on the lower edge.
- Collation: Paper ; fol. 102 + iv ; catchwords ; foliation in ink using Hindu-Arabic numerals ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 25-26 lines per page ; ruled.
- Description: Verses in red and commentary in black ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents) ; MS in good condition.
- Origin: According to colophon copied Friday 14 Shawwāl 1178 by Surūr (fol. 101b).
- Incipit: بسم الله ... يا من اطلع في سماء بيانه بديع البراعة
- Colophon: تم تحرير هذه النسخة على يدي العبد الفقير الراجي رحمة ربه العالي سرور تابع علي افندي الشرواني غفر الله لمواليه واليه واحسن اليهما واليه ضحوة يوم الجمعة لاربع عشر ليلة مضت من شوال من سنة 1178
- Binding Note
- Contemporaneous type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Foil-stamped mandorla and corner decorations. Blind-tooled edging. Possibly a type II binding which is lacking its flap.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar 1322-1389?—Mukhtaṣar al-maʻānī
- 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
- Gold tooled bindings
- Blind tooled bindings
- Watermarks
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 220
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/50dfd6fc-9a63-4206-b321-b90b86cf0de1/manifest






















