Mukhtaṣar Sharḥ Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm : manuscript / Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī.Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389.تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،, 1322-1389؟.1818 or 1819.A treatise on Arabic rhetoric being a summary of an extensive commentary by Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-Taftāzānī (1322-1389?), a famous and prolific Arabic language philologist, rhetorician and logician from Taftāzān (North Khurāsān Province, Iran) who was exiled by Tīmūr, the Mongol ruler to Samarqand where he died and was buried in Sarakhs (Iran) on "Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm" of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qazwīnī (1267 or 1268-1338) entitled "Sharḥ Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm", itself a summary of the third part of "Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm" of Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr al-Sakkākī (born 1160). According to the colophon the author finished writing his work on a Thursday noon, 22 Ramaḍān [year not mentioned]. Copied by Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī] in the year 1234 Hijrī (1818 or 1819). Place of copying not mentioned.14.5 x 24. cm; written surface: 8 x 16.5 cm; 19 lines per page.Binding: Islamic binding with four central medallion embossed on both covers.Colophon: "Faraghtu min taswīd hādhā al-mukhtaṣar bi-ʻawn Allāh al-Malik al-Akbar waqta al-ẓuhr yawm al-Khamīs min al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrīn shahr Ramaḍān al-mubārak wa-razaqanā fī ṣawmihi wa-ṣalātihi al-khushūʻ wa-al-idhʻān wa-al-ṣalāh ʻalá Nabīyihi alladhī khalaqa li-ajlihi al-kawn wa-al-makān wa-ʻalá ālihi alladhīna sabaqūnā bi-al-īmān wa-aṣḥābihi alladhīn ittabaʻūhum bi-iḥsān. al-Kātib al-faqīr al-mudhnib al-ʻāṣī afqar khalq Allāh Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī]. Allāhumma ighfir la-hu sanat 1234. [Seal: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn]."In clear and neat nastaʻlīq script, in black ink on white paper with markings in red; some notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords.Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Naḥmaduka yā man sharaḥa ṣudūranā li-talkhīṣ al-bayān fī īḍāḥ al-maʻānī wa-nawwara qulūbanā bi-jawāmiʻ al-bayān min maṭāliʻ al-mathānī wa-nuṣallī ʻalá Nabīyika Muḥammad al-muʼayyid dalāʼil iʻjāzihi bi-asrār al-balāghah wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-aṣḥābihi al-muḥrizīn qaṣabāt al-sabq fī miḍmār al-faṣāḥah wa-al-barāʻah. Wa-baʻd, fa-yaqūlu al-faqīr ilá Allāh al-ghanī Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar al-madʻū bi-Saʻd al-Taftāzānī hadāhu Allāh taʻālá sawāʼa al-ṭarīq wa-adhāqahu ḥalāwat al-taḥqīq qad sharaḥtu fī mā maḍá Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ ..."Romanization supplied by cataloger.Secundo folio: wa-inna hādhā al-fannTitle supplied by vendor.Translation of the colophon: "I finished drafting this abridgment by the help of God the Great King on Thursday noon, the twenty second of the blessed month of Ramaḍān, may we be granted in it, by our fasting and prayer, humility, submissiveness and the praying on His Prophet for whom the universe and space was created and on his family who preceded us in faith and on his companions who followed them graciously. The copyist is the poor sinner and rebellious, the poorest of God's creatures Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn ibn Ḥusayn al-Zawrī [al-Zūrī]. O God forgive him. The year 1234 [Seal: Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn]."البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في إيضاح المعاني ونور قلوبنا بجوامع البيان من مطالع المثاني ونصلي على نبيك محمد المؤيد دلائل إعجازه بأسرار البلاغة وعلى آله وأصحابه المحرزين قصبات السبق في مضمار الفصاحة والبراعة. وبعد، فيقول الفقير إلى الله الغني مسعود بن عمر المدعو بسعد التفتازاني هداه الله تعالى سواء الطريق وأذاقه حلاوة التحقيق قد شرحت في ما مضى تلخيص المفتاح ..."الخاتمة: "فرغت من تسويد هذا المختصر بعون الله الملك الأكبر وقت الظهر يوم الخميس من الثاني والعشرين شهر رمضان المبارك ورزقنا في صومه وصلوته الخشوع والإذعان والصلوة على نبيه الذي خلق لأجله الكون والمكان وعلى آله الذين سبقونا بالإيمان وأصحابه الذين اتبعوهم بإحسان. الكاتب الفقير المذنب العاصي أفقر خلق الله زين العابدين بن حسين [؟] الزوري [الزوري]. اللهم اغفر له سنة 1234. [خاتم: زين العابدين]."بداية الورقة الثانية: وإن هذا الفنtext