Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 412H.

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DS ID:

DS2383

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 412H.

Title:

Sharḥ Miftāḥ al-Sakkākī /

Place:

Najaf

An-Najaf TGN

Date:

1326

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 170, i leaves : paper ; 245 x 175 (200 x 130) mm bound to 250 x 185 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title from tail of text block. The title appears in various forms by several hands on fol. 2a: "al-Juzʼ al-awwal min Sharḥ Miʻyār al-ʻulūm", "Miṣbāḥ fī al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān lil-ʻAllāmah al-Shīrāzī ... ʻalá matn ... al-Sakkākī"
Fol. 2 consists of a modern sheet of blue paper with mention of the title, pasted on the recto of the original fol. The blue sheet has been torn, revealing the inscriptions on the original recto, including titles and ownership statements. Inscriptions in several hands on fol. 1a-b and 170b, including verses of poetry and a gift statement (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 170, i; i (modern free endpaper) 1-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-16¹⁰ 17¹⁰ (+2, at the end of the quire) i (modern free endpaper); catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered (see fol. 11a, p. 23) ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 31 lines per page.
Description: Text in red and commentary in black ; thick cream paper with pulp visible. According to the numbering of the quires and to the catchword, two quires missing between fol. 10 and 11 (see the "4" on fol. 11a).
Origin: Copy completed in Shaʻbān 726 July-Aug. 1326 by Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad al- ...? al- ...? in al-Mashhad al-muqaddas al-Murtaḍawī Najaf (colophon, fol. 170a).
Reading statement dated Wednesday 24 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1247 April 25, 1832 on fol. 170a. Several ownership statements on fol. 2a. Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Keyword:

Autographs

Silver tooled bindings

Headbands

Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm--Part 3

Arabic language--Rhetoric

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm (Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr)

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9952217963506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/42f0b9fa-3368-4526-b638-cfe3009e88ba/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University