Sharḥ al-Miftāḥ,
[985, i.e. 1577 or 1578].

شرح المفتاح, [985ه, 1577 او 1578م].

Description

Main Author

Taftāzānī, Masʻūd ibn ʻUmar, 1322-1389?.

Related Names

Mīrzā Jān, Ḥabīb Allāh, -1586?, scribe.

Language(s)

Arabic

Published

[1577 or 1578].

Subjects

Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, > Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / b. 1160. > Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / b. 1160. / Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm. > Sakkākī, Yūsuf ibn Abī Bakr, / b. 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.
Headpieces (layout features) > Headpieces (layout features) / 16th century.

Summary

Fine copy of al-Taftāzānī's commentary on the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm of al-Sakkākī on ʻIlm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān, apparently copied by Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī (d.1586).

Note

Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 216
Origin: As appears in colophon on p.434, copied for himself by Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī, perhaps Ḥabīb Allāh Mīrzā Jān al-Shīrāzī al-Baghanawī [or al-Baghandī] (d.1586), with transcription completed in 985 [1577 or 1578].
Former shelfmark: "328 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on verso of front flyleaf ; "10" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.3).
Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type II binding (with flap) ; upper and lower doublures in brown leather with simple gold-tooled border and central floral motif ; upper and lower covers bear large blind-stamped and gold-painted scalloped mandorla (vegetal composition compare Déroche class. OAi 8 or 9) with pendants and corner pieces, all surrounded by gold-painted accents and accompanied by a tooled border in a series of s-shaped stamps ; design continues on envelope flap ; sewn in light pink thread, two stations ; worked endbands in light pink and cream, intact ; overall in fair condition with slight abrasion and staining, some lifting and splitting of leather at spine and foreedge flap, envelope flap detaching from foreedge flap, etc.
Support: non-European (Persian) laid paper with 10 laid lines per cm. and sporadic chain lines ; well-burnished and quite sturdy though crisp ; front flyleaf in European laid paper ; some pest damage.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān) at opening on p.4 consisting of rectangular piece surmounted by scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) ; rectangular piece carries gold-filled cartouche with pendants and flanking accent pieces on a background of lapis lazuli with swirling vegetal decoration in gold, white, yellow, lavender, red and blue ; scalloped semi-circular piece (dome) echos the composition of the rectangular piece with swirling vegetal design mainly in black, blue, and lavender on a field of gold with accents in yellow, red, and blue green, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) in blue ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of a series of narrow gold, blue-green, and red bands with outermost blue fillet (frame also forms the well of the headpiece) ; elsewhere written area surrounded by frame consisting of gold band and black fillets ; some keywords, some abbreviations, and occasional marginalia rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; most keywords chyrsographed.
Script: Naskh ; elegant Persianate hand ; virtually serifless ; effect of tilt to the left ; kāf mashqūqah preferred ; hamzat al-waṣl occasionally marked ; pointing in distinct dots, with two dots often oriented vertically (one above the other) rather than horizontally ; mainly closed counters ; curvilinear descenders, some sweeping ; rightward descenders tapered ; freely ligatured with final hāʼ often assimilated with preceding dāl or rāʼ ; final words/letters of line often superscript ; glosses in naskh-nastaʻlīq.
Layout: Written in 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled.
Collation: i, V-1 (9), 16 V(169), IV (177), 4 V(217), I+1-1 (219) ; chiefly quinions ; first two leaves of opening quire glued together ; final leaf left blank and the two leaves preceding that are glued together ; catchwords present ; foliation in black ink, Hindu-Arabic numerals ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes front flyleaf and skips two pages each between pp.93-94 and pp.181-182).
Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads: "كتبه الفقير اليه تعالى الشهير بميرزا جان الشيرازي لنفسه غفر الله له ولوالديه في سنة ۹۸٥"
Explicit: "وقد يجعل هو نفسه التكملة وفي هذا شبه تنزل عن حقيقة الجزئية الى كونه الجمال له والكمال والاستمداد في اللغة طلب المراد يقال استمددت الامير وتعديته الى مفعولين لتضمين معنى الطلب والسؤال والله تعالى المسؤل لتيسير الآمال والمشكور على ما افاض من النوال وله الحمد على كل حال تمت الكتاب بعون الله الملك الوهاب"
Incipit: "خير خبر يوشح به صدر الكلام واحسن حديث يرشح لمقتضى المقام حمدا لله الذي خلق الانسان علمه البيان واتم له الاحسان فالهمه التبيان جعل فيه الفصاحة مفتاحا لفتح باب النجاح والدراية مصباحا للتهدي الى اسباب الفلاح
Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.3).
Ms. codex.
Inscriptions in pencil on front flyleaf "328 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" and 'title page' (p.3) "10" ; numerous marginal corrections and glosses (through p.93 and again from p.294 to p.414).

Physical Description

219 leaves : paper ; 225 x 144 (141 x 69) mm.

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