Item Summary

A commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ.

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب مطول.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Muṭawwal.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 416H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dczg64tx38v
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
236 leaves : paper ; 219 x 137 (156 x 80) mm bound to 215 x 138 mm.
Provenance
Title page has four seal impressions including: al-Sayyid Aḥmad ʻĀṣim; [?] Ibn Ṣāliḥ, and ʻĀdil Ṣāliḥ. Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 425.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Marginal and interlinear notes and glosses. First half of MS is heavily annotated.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 236 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 25 lines per page.
Description: Overlining and other use of red ; MS in good condition but several folios are mended.
Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى الهمنا حقايق المعانى ورقايق البيان ... وبعد فان احق الفضايل بالتقدم واسبقها في اسبحباب التعظيم
Colophon: وتم بعون الله
Binding Note
Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-tooled mandorla and edging. Leather doublures. Possibly a type II binding lacking the flap.

Discovery Information

Subject
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
Leather doublures
Gold tooled bindings
Stamps

Physical Characteristics

File Count
480

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1cdf46eb-73f3-4e9f-a15f-4ad24a991cae/manifest