Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī ‘ilm al-ma‘ānī wa-al-bayān, [1191, i.e. 1778].

Fine copy of the shorter commentary of al-Taftāzānī upon Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 633Origin: As appears in colophon on p.531, latter portion (from around p.471) copied by Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAbd al-Munʻim ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlwān al-Ḥimṣī al-Shāfiʻī, for his shaykh Yāsīn al-Sibāʻī whose father Muṣṭafá al-Sibāʻī copied the opening portion (opening to around p.470) with transcription completed 16 Dhu al-Hijjah 1191 [ca. 15 January 1778].Accompanying materials: a. Two inventory cataloguing slips in hand of Winifred Smeaton Thomas -- b. Acquisitions slip from Yahuda.Former shelfmark: From inner front cover and spine label, "IL 328" (likely supplied by Yahuda, see acquisitions slip).Binding: Pasteboards covered in yellow laid paper with light brown leather over spine and fore edge flap ; Type II binding (with flap) ; board linings in untinted laid paper ; sewing now gone, though two stations visible, many bifolia now split ; overall in poor condition with significant staining, abrasion, lifting and losses of leather and paper at spine and upper board, flap far too small and now deformed, etc. ; ill-fitting and likely never attached to this texblock, serves simply as wrapper ; housed in box for protection.Support: European laid paper of at least two types ; opening type with 12-13 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 22-24 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks including crown with grapes (raisin) above and name below (see p.10, 11, 128, 129, etc.) and other names (see p.8, 13, 159), medium cream to beige in color, thin though sturdy, well-burnished to glossy ; another type with 10 laid lines per cm. (vertical), chain lines spaced 21-23 mm. apart (horizontal), and watermarks of grapes (raisin) with crown above and name below and other names, etc. (e.g. "A FAVGERE" and "LANGUEDOC," see p.412, 414, 417, etc.), slightly thicker and denser, well-burnished.Decoration: Keywords and text being commented upon (matn Talkhīs al-Miftāḥ) rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of red discs ; written area of first six quires (through p.118) surrounded by red rule-border.Script: Naskh ; two main, clear 'Syrian' hands ; opening hand virtually serifless, with effect of tilt to the left, rounded with curvilinear descenders, rightward descenders tapered, pointing in strokes rather than distinct dots, kāf mashqūqah preferred (even final kāf) ; hand changes around p.471, extensively seriffed with right-sloping head-serifs, pointing in distinct dots, adheres closely to baseline, only occasional very slight effect of tilt to the left.Layout: Written in 17 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: 12 V(120), VI (132), 7 V(202), VI (214), V (224), IV (232), 3 V(262), III-1 (267) ; chiefly quinions ; quire numbering (signatures) in the form of full words on recto of first leaf of each quire beginning with the first ; catchwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (mistakenly skips two pages between pp.29-30).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "وكان الفراغ من هذه النسخة نهار الخميس المبارك لسادس عشر يوم خلت من شهر ذي الحجة الحرام الذي هو من شهور سنة احدى وتسعين ومائة والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة والتسليم تم على يد العبد الفقير الذليل المحتاج الى عفو ربه الغني الجليل عبده اسمعيل بن عبد المنعم بن محمد بن علوان الحمصي بلدا الشافعي مذهبا غفر الله له وذلك من اجل شيخه واستاذه الشيخ يس السباعي الذي اول الكتاب من خط والده مصطفى ابي السعود السباعي غفر الله له ولكل المسلمين آمين تم"Explicit: "مشتملة على لفظ الفاتحة ومنطوية على حسن الخاتمة ختم الله لنا بالحسنى ويسر لنا الفوز بالذخرى الاسنى بحق النبي واله الاكرمين محمد واله اجمعين"Incipit: "نحمدك يا من شرح صدورنا لتلخيص البيان في ايضاح المعاني ونور قلوبنا بلوامع البيان من مطالع المثاني ... وبعد فيقول المفنقر الى الله الغني مسعود بن عمر المدعو بسعد التفتازاني ... قد شرحت فيما مضى تلخيص المفتاح"Title from inscription on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Ḥājjī Khalīfah. Kashf al-ẓunūn,Brockelmann, C. GAL,Fine copy of the shorter commentary of al-Taftāzānī upon Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ by Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī (d.1338), an abridgment of the third part of Miftāḥ al-ʻulūm by al-Sakkākī (d.1229), on rhetoric (ʻilm al-maʻānī wa-al-bayān).Mode of access: Internet.Acquired in 1926 from the bookseller Isaac Benjamin S.E. Yahuda via purchase transacted on his behalf by Abraham Shalom Yahuda (1877-1951), his younger brother.On 'title page' (p.1) ownership statement in name of copyist of the opening section (and father of the shaykh of the copyist of the latter section), Muṣṭafá ibn ʻAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Jalīl al-Sibāʻī al-Shāfiʻī [?] reads "من كتب كاتبه ... حقير عبيده مصطفى بن عبد الفتاح بن محمد بن يحيى بن محمد بن عبد الجليل السباعي الشافعي [؟] غفر الله له ولهم ولمن دعا لهم بالمغفرة امين" ; extensive marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections