Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī.
[مختصر في المعاني]

Authors

• Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?
  تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،
• Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338
  قزويني، جلال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن،

Other related names

• Skoss, Solomon Leon, 1884-1953, former owner
• Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, former owner

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 279
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977646151503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131863898
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/html/kcajs_rar_ms_279.html

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Arabic

Origin

Date

between 1600 and 1799?

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.
   

Watermark

Trefoil countermark with initials B? and C?; some pages have a large coat of arms (see f. 56 for example).

Extent

I, 175 leaves : 279 x 197 (205 x 120) mm bound to 275 x 205 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Source-text overlined in black; some chapter headings in larger script.

Script

Written in naskh in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Given by Solomon L. Skoss to the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (note on library bookplate, inside front cover).
   

Subjects topical

• 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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Mukhtaṣar fī al-maʻānī].

Decorations

• Front cover — Paper label
• Inside front cover — Description of manuscript in pencil