Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389. تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،, 1322-1389؟.
Published / Created:
1818 or 1819.
Call Number:
Arabic MSS suppl. 628
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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.
Alternative Title:
مختصر شرح تلخيص مفتاح العلوم : مخطوطة / مسعود بن عمر التفتازاني.
Description:
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-fann, Title 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].", and بداية الورقة الثانية: وإن هذا الفن
Subject (Name):
Qazwīnī, Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān,--1267 or 1268-1338.--Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ fī ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-badīʻ wa-al-bayān., Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr,--1160---Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar,--1322-1389., Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar,--1322-1389?--Sharḥ Talkhīṣ Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm., تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،,--1322-1389؟., تفتازاني، مسعود بن عمر،,--1322-1389؟.--شرح تلخيص مفتاح العلوم., سكاكي، يوسف بن أبي بكر،,--1160---مفتاح العلوم., and قزويني، جلال الدين محمد بن عبد الرحمن،,--1267 أو 1268-1338.--تلخيص المفتاح في علم المعاني والبديع والبيان.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic language--Rhetoric. and Arabic manuscripts.
Collection of prayers and invocations for seeking God's protection from the enemies, with many verses from the Qurʼān. Name of the author not mentioned. Copied and illuminated in 1267 Hijrī (1850 or 1851) by the calligrapher al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir nicknamed "Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān" (Memorizer of the Qurʼān). Place of copying not mentioned.
Description:
10 x 16 cm; written surface: 5 x 9 cm; 13 lines per page., Binding: Bound in contemporary blue wrapper with flap; both covers beautifully hand-decorated in gilt., Colophon: "Katabahu al-mudhnib al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim min talāmīdh Muḥammad Dhākr [al-mulaqqab] bi-Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān, ghufira la-humā, sanat 1267 H.", In beautiful naskh script, in black ink on white paper, keywords in red; the opening page is illuminated with a handsome heading in gold, blue, rose, and other colors; there are also four different medallions on the margins in gold, blue and other colors (folios 1b, 5a, 9a, 11a); catchwords; text within gold frame., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. al-Ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn, al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Īyāka naʻbudu wa-īyāka nastaʻīn. Ihdinā al-ṣirāṭa al-mustaqīm, ṣirāṭa alladhīna anʻamta ʻalayhim, ghayr al-maghḍūbi ʻalayhim wa-lā al-ḍāllīn ...", Interspersed in the text is an invocatory refrain, repeated ten times, in red ink: "Aʻdāʼunā lan yaṣilū ilaynā bi-al-nafs wa-lā bi-al-wāsiṭah, lā qudrata lahum ʻalá īṣāl al-sūʼ ilaynā bi-ḥāl min al-aḥwāl" (Our enemies will not be able to reach us, neither in person nor by proxy. They have no power to inflict harm on us under any circumstances)., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: nunjī al-muʼminīn., Text folios 1b-11b., Title supplied by cataloger., Translation of the colophon: "Copied by the guilty al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rāsim, a student of Muḥammad Dhākir [nicknamed] Ḥāfiẓ al-Qurʼān [Memorizer of the Qurʼān], may God forgive both of them, in the year 1267 Hijrī [1850 or 1851].", البداية: "بسم االله الرحمن الرحيم. الحمد لله رب العالمين، الرحمن الرحيم. إيّاك نعبد وإيّاك نستعين. اهدنا الصراط المستقيم، صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم، غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالّين ...", الخاتمة: "كتبه المذنب السيد محمد راسم من تلاميذ محمد ذاكر [الملقّب] بحافظ القرآن، غفر لهما، سنة 1267 ھ.", بداية الورقة الثانية: ننجي المؤمنين., and تتكرر خلال النص، بحبر أحمر، عشر مرات، لازمة الدعاء التالية: "أعداؤنا لن يصلوا إلينا بالنفس ولا بالواسطة، لا قدرة لهم على إيصال السوء إلينا بحال من الأحوال."
Subject (Name):
Rāsim, Muḥammad, Active 1850. and راسم، محمد، ناشط 1850.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Illumination of books and manuscripts., Invocation--Religious aspects--Islam., Prayer--Islam., and Qurʼan.--Selections.
BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Binding of stamped calf on wooden boards from between 1482 and 1492. Originally the volume had 5 brass bosses on each board, 2 are now wanting from the front board. Remnants of brass clasps., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Presentation inscription: Hic liber est mei Jeronimj Monetarii de Feltkirchen, arciu[m] ast medicinae doctoris, quem mihi dono dedit Bernardus Walther, Ciuis Nure[n]berge, sua etate in mathematica peritissim[us], anno salut[is] 1492 in dieb[us] Julii., BEIN Zi +4383 Copy 2: With: Georg von, 1423-1461. Theoricae novae planetarum. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1474. Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476. Vniversis bonarum artium studiosis Ioannes de Monteregio .S.D.P. Nuremberg: Joannes Regiomontanus, ca. 1475., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸., Title from incipit in red (leaf a2r)., Translated from Arabic by Adelard of Bath; edited by Campano da Novara. While books I-XIII are Euclid's (cf. Th. Heath. The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements. 1956, v.3, p. 519), Book XIV is a work of the 2d cent. by Hypsicles and book XV the work of a Roman land-surveyor of the 6th century. For a discussion by B.L. van der Waerden of Euclid's sources see Enc. Brit., 15th ed., Micro. IV, p 589., With dedicatory letter by Erhard Ratdolt., and Woodcut initials, large and small, and diagrams in margins throughout; woodcut three-sided border on leaf a2r.
Adelard, of Bath, ca. 1116-1142, Altschul, Frank,--1887-1981--Bookplate, Brandenburg, Hilprand,--1442-1514--Presentation inscription to Reichskartause Buxheim, Campano, da Novara, d. 1296, Hypsicles, of Alexandria, Münzer, Hieronymus,--d. 1508--Presentation inscription from B. Walther, Ratdolt, Erhard, 1447?-1527 or 8, Reichskartause Buxheim Presentation inscription from Hilprand Brandenburg, and Walther, Bernhard,--1430-1504--Presention inscription to H. Münzer
Subject (Topic):
Geometry--Early works to 1800, Incunabula in Yale Library, and Mathematics, Greek--Early works to 1800
An anonymous treatise on the Arab conquest of North Africa under the leadership of ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir (died 678), a companion of the Prophet Muḥammad who became the governor of Egypt and died there. The present manuscript is the first book (al-sifr al-awwal) of the original work, dealing with the conquest from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf (localities in North Africa). Copied by Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm of Banū Ṣāliḥ on Wednesday, 1 Shaʻbān, 1083 Hijrī (22 November, 1672). Place of copying not mentioned.
Alternative Title:
Futūḥ Ifrīqīyah, فتوح إفريقية, and قصة فتوح إفريقية. السفر 1 : مخطوطة.
Description:
14 x 18.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 14 cm; 17 lines per page., Binding: In modern brown cloth binding., Colophon: "Wa-hādhā muqtaḍá al-sifr al-awwal min al-Mahdīyah wa-ilá Sāṭīf ... Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh ʻalá al-tamām wa-al-ikmāl ʻalá yad ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm min Banī Ṣāliḥ ... Wa-kāana al-farāgh minhu ʻashīyah yawm al-Arbaʻ awwal shahr Shaʻbān ʻām thalāth wa-thamānīn wa-alf ...", In fair Maghribī script, in brown ink on white paper; headings, keywords and markings in red; the first ten leaves are in a different hand and seem to have replaced the original; catchwords. The leaves are affected by dampness, but the text is legible, some are repaired without loss of text., Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm. Ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad wa-ālihi. Qiṣṣat futūḥ Ifrīqīyah. Bi-ʻawn Allāh wa-barakat Rasūl Allāh ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Qāl fa-kharaja ilayhā ʻUqbah ibn ʻĀmir, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, yakūnu amīr al-jaysh, wa-kharrajahu Mawlānā ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wa-huwa amīr al-Madīnah [madīnat] al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam, wa-yakūnu ʻAlī, raḍiya Allāh ʻanh, wazīrahu. Wa-lam yuqtal aḥad baʻda mawt al-Nabī, ṣallá Allāh ʻlayhi wa-sallam. Fa-kharaja bi-sittīn alf fāris min bilād al-ʻArab ...", On folio 10b an invocation in a different hand., On folios 1a an advice on generosity, written in light blue ink, bearing the name and signature of al-Sayyid al-Ṭūfī al-Mālikī, Mudīr ʻĀmm Maʻhad al-Futūḥ al-Malakī, starts with: "Kun karīman kay tanāla bi-qurbinā nūran wa-ʻilman ...", Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: miʼat alf fāris., Text folio 1a-155b., Title from folio 1a., Translation of the colophon: "This is the end of the first book dealing with [the conquest] from al-Mahdīyah to Sāṭīf ... Praise be to God on completing its copying by ... Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhim of Banī Ṣāliḥ ... The copying was completed on Wednesday evening, the beginning of Shaʻbān, 1083 [22 November, 1672] ...", البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. صلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله. قصة فتوح إفريقية. بعون الله وبركة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم. قال فخرج إليها عقبة بن عامر، رضي الله عنه، يكون أمير الجيش، وخرّجه مولانا عثمان بن عفان، رضي الله عنه، وهو أمير المدينة [مدينة] النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، ويكون علي، رضي الله عنه، وزيره. ولم يقتل أحد بعد موت النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم. فخرج بستين ألف فارس من بلاد العرب ...", الخاتمة: "وهذا مقتضى السفر الأول من المهدية وإلى ساطيف ... والحمد لله على التمام والإكمال على يد ... أحمد بن إبراهيم من بني صالح ... وكان الفراغ منه عشية يوم الأربع أول شهر شعبان عام ثلاث وثمانين وألف ...", بداية الورقة الثانية: مائة ألف فارس., على ظهر الورقة 10 دعاء بخط مختلف., and على وجه الورقة 1 نصيحة عن الكرم، مكتوبة بحبر أزرق فاتح، تحمل اسم وتوقيع السيد الطوفي المالكي، مدير عام معهد الفتوح الملكي، بدايتها: "كن كريمًا كي تنال بقربنا نورًا وعلمًا ..."
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, North--History--647-1517--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts. and Islam--Africa, North--History--Early works to 1800.
Selections from the Qurʼān: Starts with verse 53 of Sūrat Yūsuf (Chapter 12), Sūrat al-Raʻd (Chapter 13) to the end of Sūrat Ibrāhīm (Chapter 14). The manuscript was illuminated and copied in China in a Chinese style Arabic calligraphy. Qurʼān manuscripts from China are very rare. Name of copyist and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century.
Alternative Title:
Qurʼan. Selections.
Description:
19 x 27.5 cm; written surface: 12.5 x 16 cm; 5 lines per page., Binding: In brown leather binding with flap; covers embossed with central medallions and borders are embossed in floral designs; a little worn; slight smudging., Ends with: "Hādhā balāghun lil-nās wa-li-yundharū bi-hi wa-li-yaʻlamū annamā huwa ilāhun wāḥidun wa-li-yadhdhakkara ulū al-albāb." "Ṣadaqa Allāh al-ʻAẓīm.", In beautiful large Arabic script (Chinese style), in black ink on white paper; text vocalized throughout, with recitation marks in red; all headings of the chapters are written in red; the opening two chapters are illuminated in gold, blue; green, red and other colors; the last page is also illuminated in green, gold, brown and other colors; text within double red frames; some pages are repaired with glued pieces of paper from modern Chinese publications; catchwords., On folio 63 an attempt to practice copying part of verse 5 of Sūrat al-Raʻd., On folio 63b an inscription in classical Chinese., Romanization supplied by cataloger., Secundo folio: Rabbī ghafūrun raḥīm., Starts with: "Wa-mā ubarriʼu nafsī inna al-nafsa la-ammāratun bi-al-sūʼ ...", Title supplied by cataloger., بداية الورقة الثانية: ربي غفورٌ رحيم., تبدأ بـِ: "وما أبرئ نفسي إن النفس لأمارةٌ بالسوء ...", and تنتهي بـِ: "هذا بلاغٌ للناس ولينذروا به وليعلموا أنما هو إله واحدٌ وليذكّر أولوا الألباب." "صدق الله العظيم."
Subject (Topic):
Arabic manuscripts., Qurʼan.--Sūrat al-Raʻd., Qurʼan.--Sūrat Ibrāhīm., and Qurʼan.--Sūrat Yūsuf.
Ṣabbāgh, Mīkhāʾīl ibn Niqūlā, 1775 or 6-1816 Zawzanī, Ḥusayn ibn Aḥmad, d. 1093 or 4
Published / Created:
[ca. 1810]
Call Number:
Salisbury MSS 48
Image Count:
45
Abstract:
Commentary on the Muʻallaqāt. and Copied by Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh, about 1810.
Alternative Title:
Muʻallaqāt.
Description:
Fair naskhī, in red and black., For the author see: Brockelmann, I, 288., From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 141). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Interleaved with 84 leaves, containing copious annotations by Silvestre de Sacy., and Mīkhāʾīl Ṣabbāgh's dates are 1784-1816 (Brockelmann, II, 479).
Subject (Name):
Silvestre de Sacy, A. I. (Antoine Isaac), 1758-1838
Commentary on al-Risālah (epistle) of Ibn Zaydūn. and Copied according to the colophon in A.H. 960 (A.D. 1553).
Alternative Title:
Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn.
Description:
From the library of Silvestre de Sacy (Catalogue, no. 191). Presented to Yale by Edward Elbridge Salisbury in 1870., Good naskhī, in red and black. First and last (colophon) leaves supplied by a later hand., The proper title of the work is: Sarḥ al-ʻuyūn fī sharḥ Risālat Ibn Zaydūn., and With autograph note by Rifāʻah Bak al-Ṭahṭāwī.
Subject (Name):
Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh, 1003 or 4-1071. Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Ibn Zaydūn, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd Allāh,--1003 or 4-1071.--Risālah al-Zaydūnīyah, Silvestre de Sacy, A. I.--(Antoine Isaac),--1758-1838--Presentation inscription from R. al-Ṭaḥtāwī, and Ṭahṭāwī, Rifāʻah Rāfiʻ,--1801-1873--Presentation inscription to A. I. Silvestre de Sacy