[Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī]; [مختصر في المعاني]

Contributor:

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (former owner)

Name:

Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?; Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1600

Description:

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.

Language:

Arabic

Provenance:

Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).; Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner.

Publisher:

[publisher not identified]

Relation:

Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms279.html

Subject:

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

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, Arabic; Manuscripts, 17th century; Manuscripts, 18th century; Codices (bound manuscripts); Envelope flaps (features); Blind tooled (decoration); manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

i, 175 leaves : paper; 279 x 197 (205 x 120) mm bound to 275 x 205 mm

Rights:

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

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).; Arabic.

Physical Location:

Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 279