Kitāb Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm.; Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm

Abstract:

Digital facsimile of an Arabic treatise in 3 parts concerning the sciences of morphology, syntax, and rhetoric. A note in the manuscript documents that proofreading by comparison to the autograph manuscript was completed on 2 Jumādá I 672 (14 Nov. 1273).

Creator:

Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160-

Timespan:

Arab countries.

Date:

1272

Identifier:

9958187053503681; (OCoLC)809193272; (OCoLC)ocn809193272; (PU)5818705-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2001 (LJS 406).; Formerly in the collection of the Yusufağa Kütüphanesi (5545).; Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (records of Lawrence J. Schoenberg).; Transferred from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection to the Turkish Consulate General, New York, 2015.

Publisher:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 671 (1272)

Subject:

Linguistics.; Arabic language -- Rhetoric.; Linguistics -- Arab countries -- History.; Arabic language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; History.; Treatises.; Early works.; Diagrams.; Manuscripts, 13th century.; Manuscripts, Medieval.; Facsimiles.; Manuscripts, Arabic.

Resource Type:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 leaves) : illustrations

Personal Name:

Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.; Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.; Bihzād ibn ʻAlī, scribe.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Origin: Copy completed on 1 Ṣafar 671 A.H. (August 1272 CE) by Bihzād ibn ʻAlī (f. 302v).; Dimensions of original manuscript: 258 x 182 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 258 x 188 mm.; Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.; Binding: Contemporary (13th-century) light brown leather with flap (Type II) with central blind-stamped lobed medallion and cornerpieces, blind-tooled with gold dots; paper label on hinge of flap; rebacked. Brown leather doublure.; Foliation: Paper, 301; [1-301], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on most leaves, lower left verso.; Title from colophon (f. 302v).; Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Decoration: Diagram in ink of a schematic presentation of the mouth, concerning the formation of sounds (f. 6v); headings and significant words in red ink.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Yusufağa Kütüphanesi 5545