Rhetoric [877]

Rhetoric. This manuscript is now IO Islamic B262 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 877 here with further notations and hyperlinks]. 877. B 262. Size 63/4 in. by 5 in.; foll. 203. Nineteen lines in a page. The shorter Commentary of TAFTÂZÂNÎ on theتلخيص المفتاح , commonly called المختصر . It was completed A.H. 756, and dedicated to Sulṭân Jalâl al-dîn Abu’l-muẓaffar Maḥmûd Jânî Beg Khân.1 Cf. Ḥ. Kh. ii. 404; Cat. St. Petersb. 189; Von Krafft, Hdss. orient. Akad. 22; etc. This commentary has been frequently published in India, first at Calcutta, 1813. It was also printed at Constantinople, A.H. 1259. Extracts from it are given in Mehren’s Rhetorik der Araber. Well written in a small hand. Of about the ninth century. Covered with notes of various origin. The beginning of the work is here in two copies, the first of which breaks off on fol. 3. The vacant pages at the beginning and at the end of the book are filled with various extracts in Arabic and Persian. Bîj. Libr., A.H. 1028. Cat. 237, vii. 1 Cf. Hammer-Purgstall, Geschichte der Goldenen Horde, p. 305.

本手稿主题为修辞学，现隶属于印度办公室馆藏，编号为IO Islamic B262。「元数据来源：奥托·洛特（Otto Loth）《印度办公室图书馆阿拉伯手稿目录》（第一卷）第877号条目，本条目附带补充注释与超链接。」编号877即B262，开本尺寸为6又3/4英寸×5英寸，共计203张对开页，每页十九行。该作品为塔夫塔扎尼（TAFTÂZÂNÎ）为《<钥匙>提要》（تلخيص المفتاح）所作的简注，该书通常被称为《节略本》（المختصر）。本注本完成于伊斯兰历756年，敬献予苏丹贾拉尔·丁·阿布·穆扎法尔·马哈茂德·贾尼·贝格汗¹。可参考以下文献：Ḥ. Kh. 卷二第404页、《圣彼得堡馆藏目录》第189号、冯·克拉夫特（Von Krafft）《东方学术手稿集》第22条等。该注本曾多次在印度刊印，初版于1813年的加尔各答，亦曾于伊斯兰历1259年在君士坦丁堡付梓。其节录内容收录于梅林（Mehren）所著《阿拉伯修辞学》（Rhetorik der Araber）一书。本手稿书写工整，字体小巧，约创作于9世纪。页间杂有多条不同来源的批注。手稿包含该著作的两个开篇副本，其中第一个副本在第3对开页处终止。手稿首尾的空白页均抄录有阿拉伯语与波斯语的各类节录内容。参考馆藏：比贾布尔图书馆（Bîj. Libr.），伊斯兰历1028年；《馆藏目录》第237号，第七卷第1条。可参考哈默-普尔格施塔尔（Hammer-Purgstall）《金帐汗国史》（Geschichte der Goldenen Horde）第305页。