Kitāb Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm; كتاب مفتاح العلوم

Alternate Title:

Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm

Contributor:

Bihzād ibn ʻAlī (scribe)

Name:

Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160-; Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160-

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1272

Description:

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).

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Yusufağa Kütüphanesi (5545).; Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (records of Lawrence J. Schoenberg).; Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2001 (LJS 406).; Transferred from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection to the Turkish Consulate General, New York, 2015.; Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Subject:

Linguistics; History; Arabic language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Arabic language -- Rhetoric; Linguistics -- Arab countries -- History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 13th century; Manuscripts, Medieval; Facsimiles; Diagrams; Treatises; Early works; History; books

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 leaves) : illustrations

Geographic Subject:

Arab countries

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Title from colophon (f. 302v).; Table of contents: 1. f.2v-41v: ʻIlm al-ṣarf.; Table of contents: 2. f.42v-87v: ʻIlm al-naḥw.; Table of contents: 3. f.88v-301v: ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.; Foliation: Paper, 301; [1-301], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on most leaves, lower left verso.; Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.; 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.; 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.; 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.; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Yusufağa Kütüphanesi 5545