Kitāb Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
كتاب مفتاح العلوم
- Description
- 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).
- Alternate Title
- Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm
- Creator
- Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160-
- Bihzād ibn ʻAlī (scribe)
- Form
- books
- Manuscripts, Arabic
- Manuscripts, 13th century
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- facsimiles (reproductions)
- diagrams
- treatises
- Date
- 1272
- Language
- Arabic
- Subject
- Linguistics
- History
- Arabic language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
- Arabic language -- Rhetoric
- Linguistics -- Arab countries -- History
- Geographic Subject
- Arab countries
- Extent
- 1 online resource (301 leaves) : illustrations
- Publisher
- [publisher not identified]
- Notes
- Title from colophon (f. 302v).
- Table of contents: 1. f.2v-41v: ʻIlm al-ṣarf.
- Table of contents: 2. f.42v-87v: ʻIlm al-naḥw.
- Table of contents: 3. f.88v-301v: ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.
- 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.
- Arabic.
- Related Work: Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, 1160- ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37w67p1r
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Web, Yusufağa Kütüphanesi 5545
- 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.
- Aga Khan, Sadruddin, Prince, 1933-2003, former owner.
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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