Lot Essay
A very rare and possibly unique copy of Akmal al-Din's work, executed during his lifetime. It appears to be the earliest copy known.
These two commentaries on Talkhis al-Miftah are an abidgement of a larger work on Arabic grammer and Rhetorics entitiled al-Miftah by Yusuf bin Abu Bakr Sakkai (d. AH 626/AD 1229). It seems very likely that both these works in this manuscript, the main text and the marginal text, are in Akmal al-Din's own hand (d. AH 786/AD 1384), and executed four years after the death of the author 'Adud al-Din 'Umar bin Ali al-Iji (?also known as 'Adud al-Din Khatib) who died in AH 756/AD 1355. A 9th century copy of his work Fawaid al-Ghiyathiyah is preserved in the Garrett Collection at Princeton University Library, (no.3923)
These two commentaries on Talkhis al-Miftah are an abidgement of a larger work on Arabic grammer and Rhetorics entitiled al-Miftah by Yusuf bin Abu Bakr Sakkai (d. AH 626/AD 1229). It seems very likely that both these works in this manuscript, the main text and the marginal text, are in Akmal al-Din's own hand (d. AH 786/AD 1384), and executed four years after the death of the author 'Adud al-Din 'Umar bin Ali al-Iji (?also known as 'Adud al-Din Khatib) who died in AH 756/AD 1355. A 9th century copy of his work Fawaid al-Ghiyathiyah is preserved in the Garrett Collection at Princeton University Library, (no.3923)