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[Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī].
[مختصر في المعاني].
Library at the Katz Center - Rare Book Manuscript CAJS Rar Ms 279
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
- Language:
- Arabic
- Subjects (All):
- Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338. Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
- Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.
- Arabic language--Rhetoric--Early works to 1800.
- Arabic language--Rhetoric.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, Arabic.
- Manuscripts, 17th century.
- Manuscripts, 18th century.
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
- Physical Description:
- i, 175 leaves : paper ; 279 x 197 (205 x 120) mm bound to 275 x 205 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1799?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic.
- Summary:
- Shorter commentary on Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī, an abridgment of part 3 of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī on al-Maʻānī wa-al-bayān. This copy is missing a page at the beginning and is written in an ink that is corroding through the paper making some of the pages unstable and difficult to read.
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Foliation: Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.
- Layout: Written in 30 long lines; border-ruled.
- Script: Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.
- Decoration: Source-text overlined in black; some chapter headings in larger script.
- Binding: Red leather over pasteboard with flap (Type II); blind-stamped central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and double frame; binding is detached from textblock.
- Origin: The copy is undated, though it mentions that the work copied was begun in 742 and finished in 748 A.H. (f. 175r); possibly copied in the 17th or 18th century.
- Watermark: Trefoil countermark with initials B? and C?; some pages have a large coat of arms (see f. 56 for example).
- Cited as:
- CAJS Rar Ms 279.
- Contains:
- Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338. Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. Selections.
- قزويني، جلال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن، 1267 او 1268-1338. تلخيص المفتاح Selections.
- OCLC:
- 1131863898
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