Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, [884, i. 1479].
(تلخيص المفتاح, [884ه, 1479م].)

Name: Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, [884, i. 1479].
Author: Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338.

Title	Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, [884, i. 1479].
Title Original	تلخيص المفتاح, [884ه, 1479م].
Author	Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338.
Publication Date:	[1479]
Subject	Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,, Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160-, Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160- / Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160- / Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. / Qism 3., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor., Arabic language, Arabic language / Rhetoric, Arabic language / Rhetoric / Early works to 1800.
Type	Book
Language	Arabic
Digital	No
Manuscript	Unknown
Pages Count	140
Physical Dimensions	140 leaves : paper ; 180 x 125 (115 x 80) mm
Library:	HathiTrust Digital Library
Record ID	006769613
Library Location	University of Michigan
Notes	About: Fine copy of the abdrigment by al-Qazwīnī, Khaṭīb Dimashq, (d.1338) of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229) on rhetoric, ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza. \| Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 146 Origin: As appears in colophon on p.278, copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Qārī al-Tibrīzī. Transcription completed final day of Muḥarram 884 [ca. 23 April 1479]. Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.107. Talkhis al-miftah." Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in light orange laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped mandorla (red leather onlays) filled with vegetal decoration ; sewn in grey thread, four stations ; headband intact, tailband missing ; in fair condition with some abrasion and staining, foreedge flap detaching at lower cover, cover detaching at spine, etc. Support: mainly non-European (Persian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and sporadic chain lines, crisp and very well sized and burnished ; a second type (likely European laid) shows 15 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and 23 mm. between chain lines (horiztonal) ; tide-lines from water damage on edges of pages not effecting readability. Decoration: Section headings, some glosses and corrections, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas and hāʼ or numeral khamsah shape "۵" in red. Script: Naskh ; mainly an elegant Eastern hand, with variation in line thickness ; partially seriffed with occasional rightward head-serif on joined alif and leftward head-serif on medial lām ; mainly open counters ; bowls of letters elongated ; descenders mainly tapered. Layout: Written in 7 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident). Collation: i, V+1 (11), IV (19), 2 V(39), IV (47), IV+2 (57), V (67), IV+1 (76), V (86), 2 IV+1 (104), V (114), 2 IV (130), V (140), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization ; includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.55-56). Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "الحمد الله على التمام و الرسول افضل السلام تم الكتاب بعن الله و توفيقه على يدي اضعف عباد الله جرما و احقرهم جرما محمد بن علي القاري التبريزي غفر الله لهم ... في سلخ محرم الحرام لسنة اربع و ثمانين و ثمانمائة " Explicit: "وهذا دعاء للبرية شامل و جميع فواتح السور و خواتمها و اردة على احسن الوجوه و اكملها يظهر ذلك بالتامل مع التذكر لما تقدم و الله الموفق للاختتام " Incipit: "الحمد لله على ما انعم و علم من البيان ما لم نعلم و الصلاة على سيدنا محمد خير من نطق بالصواب ... اما بعد فلما كان علم البلاغة و توابعها من اجل العلوم قدرا و ادقها سرا ... و كان القسم الثالث من مفتاح العلوم الذي صنفه الفاضل العلامة ابو يوسف السكاكي رحمه الله اعظم ما صنف فيه من الكتب المشهورة نفعا ... الفت مختصرا يتضمن ما فيه من القواعد و يشتمل على ما يحتاج اليه من الامثلة و الشواهد ... و سميته تلخيص المفتاح و انا اسأل الله من فضله ان ينفع به كما نفع باصله انه ولي ذلك و هو حسبي و نعم الوكيل " Title from opening on p.7. Ms. codex. Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No.107. Talkhis al-miftah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "434" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; ownership statement in red ink on 'title page' (p.3) reads : "بو دخى خالد افندى زاده كتابلر ... در ٢٥ ذي القعده سنه ١۲۲۰ [؟]" ; faint circular seal impression in black ink also on 'title page' (p.3) ; numerous marginal and interlinear glosses ; occasional corrections.

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Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ, [884, i. 1479].

(تلخيص المفتاح, [884ه, 1479م].)

Author Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1267 or 1268-1338.

Publication Date [1479]

Subject Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,, Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160-, Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160- / Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / 1160- / Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. / Qism 3., Manuscripts, Arabic, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan, Manuscripts, Arabic / Michigan / Ann Arbor., Arabic language, Arabic language / Rhetoric, Arabic language / Rhetoric / Early works to 1800.

Type Book

Language Arabic

Digital No

Manuscript Unknown

Pages Count 140

Physical Dimensions 140 leaves : paper ; 180 x 125 (115 x 80) mm

Library HathiTrust Digital Library

Record ID 006769613

Library Location University of Michigan

Notes About: Fine copy of the abdrigment by al-Qazwīnī, Khaṭīb Dimashq, (d.1338) of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (d. 626/1229) on rhetoric, ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān. Description provided mainly by Sarah Mirza. | Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 146 Origin: As appears in colophon on p.278, copied by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī al-Qārī al-Tibrīzī. Transcription completed final day of Muḥarram 884 [ca. 23 April 1479]. Former shelfmark: British Museum, London "No.107. Talkhis al-miftah." Binding: Pasteboards covered in brown leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in light orange laid paper ; upper and lower covers bear blind-stamped mandorla (red leather onlays) filled with vegetal decoration ; sewn in grey thread, four stations ; headband intact, tailband missing ; in fair condition with some abrasion and staining, foreedge flap detaching at lower cover, cover detaching at spine, etc. Support: mainly non-European (Persian) laid paper with 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and sporadic chain lines, crisp and very well sized and burnished ; a second type (likely European laid) shows 15 laid lines per cm. (vertical) and 23 mm. between chain lines (horiztonal) ; tide-lines from water damage on edges of pages not effecting readability. Decoration: Section headings, some glosses and corrections, and abbreviation symbols rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of inverted commas and hāʼ or numeral khamsah shape "۵" in red. Script: Naskh ; mainly an elegant Eastern hand, with variation in line thickness ; partially seriffed with occasional rightward head-serif on joined alif and leftward head-serif on medial lām ; mainly open counters ; bowls of letters elongated ; descenders mainly tapered. Layout: Written in 7 lines per page ; frame-ruled (impression of ruling-board clearly evident). Collation: i, V+1 (11), IV (19), 2 V(39), IV (47), IV+2 (57), V (67), IV+1 (76), V (86), 2 IV+1 (104), V (114), 2 IV (130), V (140), i ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals (supplied during digitization ; includes flyleaves and skips two pages between pp.55-56). Colophon: "Scribal," rectangular, reads: "الحمد الله على التمام و الرسول افضل السلام تم الكتاب بعن الله و توفيقه على يدي اضعف عباد الله جرما و احقرهم جرما محمد بن علي القاري التبريزي غفر الله لهم ... في سلخ محرم الحرام لسنة اربع و ثمانين و ثمانمائة " Explicit: "وهذا دعاء للبرية شامل و جميع فواتح السور و خواتمها و اردة على احسن الوجوه و اكملها يظهر ذلك بالتامل مع التذكر لما تقدم و الله الموفق للاختتام " Incipit: "الحمد لله على ما انعم و علم من البيان ما لم نعلم و الصلاة على سيدنا محمد خير من نطق بالصواب ... اما بعد فلما كان علم البلاغة و توابعها من اجل العلوم قدرا و ادقها سرا ... و كان القسم الثالث من مفتاح العلوم الذي صنفه الفاضل العلامة ابو يوسف السكاكي رحمه الله اعظم ما صنف فيه من الكتب المشهورة نفعا ... الفت مختصرا يتضمن ما فيه من القواعد و يشتمل على ما يحتاج اليه من الامثلة و الشواهد ... و سميته تلخيص المفتاح و انا اسأل الله من فضله ان ينفع به كما نفع باصله انه ولي ذلك و هو حسبي و نعم الوكيل " Title from opening on p.7. Ms. codex. Bookplate of British Museum, London on interior of upper cover, "British Museum, London. No.107. Talkhis al-miftah." ; circular seal impression with figure of goat/gazelle in purple ink as well as inscription "434" in Western numerals on front flyleaf (p.1) ; ownership statement in red ink on 'title page' (p.3) reads : "بو دخى خالد افندى زاده كتابلر ... در ٢٥ ذي القعده سنه ١۲۲۰ [؟]" ; faint circular seal impression in black ink also on 'title page' (p.3) ; numerous marginal and interlinear glosses ; occasional corrections.