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Title

Kitāb Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm

Authors

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

Other related names

• Bihzād ibn ʻAlī, scribe
• Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-, former owner

Call number

LJS 406
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5818705
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5818705

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

A.H. 671 (1272)

Place

Anatolia

Summary

Treatise whose title translated in English is Key to the sciences, presented 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).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

301 leaves : 258 x 182 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 258 x 188 mm

Foliation

Paper, 301; [1-301], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on most leaves, lower left verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary (13th-century) morocco with central rosette and cornerpieces, blind-tooled with gold dots; flap on lower cover, with paper label on hinge of flap; rebacked.

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.

Script

Written in naskh script by Bihzād ibn ʻAlī.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; sold at auction at Piasa (Paris) as part of his collection, 7 June 1999.
   
• Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Mar. 2001.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Arabic--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2v — ?Ilm al-s?arf, f. 2v
• fol. 42v — ?Ilm al-nah?w, f. 42v
• fol. 88v — ?Ilm al-ma?a?ni? wa-al-baya?n, f. 88v

Decorations

• fol. 6v — Diagram, f. 6v