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Kitāb Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. = كتاب مفتاح العلوم. [electronic resource].

Author/Creator:
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160-
سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر، 1160-
Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], A.H. 671 (1272)
Format/Description:
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1 online resource (301 leaves) : illustrations
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Other Title:
Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
مفتاح العلوم
Subjects:
Linguistics.
History.
Arab countries.
Arabic language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Arabic language -- Rhetoric.
Linguistics -- Arab countries -- History.
Form/Genre:
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Manuscripts, 13th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Facsimiles.
Diagrams.
Treatises.
Early works.
History.
Language:
Arabic.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Summary:
Digital facsimile of an Arabic treatise 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).
Contents:
1. f.2v-41v: ʻIlm al-ṣarf.
2. f.42v-87v: ʻIlm al-naḥw.
3. f.88v-301v: ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.
Notes:
Title from colophon (f. 302v).
Foliation: Paper, 301; [1-301], modern foliation in pencil, upper left recto. Catchwords on most leaves, lower left verso.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in naskh in brown ink; pointed, partially vocalized.
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.
Binding: Contemporary (13th-century) light brown leather with flap (Type II) with central blind-stamped lobed medallion and cornerpieces, blind-tooled with gold dots; paper label on hinge of flap; rebacked. Brown leather doublure.
Origin: Copy completed on 1 Ṣafar 671 A.H. (August 1272 CE) by Bihzād ibn ʻAlī (f. 302v).
Dimensions of original manuscript: 258 x 182 (180 x 125) mm. bound to 258 x 188 mm.
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2012. Yusufağa Kütüphanesi.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of the Yusufağa Kütüphanesi (5545).
Formerly owned by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (records of Lawrence J. Schoenberg).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, March 2001 (LJS 406).
Transferred from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection to the Turkish Consulate General, New York, 2015.
Cited in:
Listed in Une liste des manuscrits choisis parmi les bibliothèques de Konya (Istanbul: Millî Eğitim Basimevi, 1951), p.25 (156).
Described in Transformation of knowledge: early manuscripts from the collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg (London: Paul Holberton, 2006), p. 141 (LJS 406).
Cited as:
Yusufağa Kütüphanesi 5545.
Contributor:
Bihzād ibn ʻAlī, scribe.
Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
بهزاد بن علي، scribe.
سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر، 1160-
Contains:
Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.
سكاكي، يوسف بن ابي بكر، 1160- علم المعاني والبيان.
OCLC:
809193272