Details

Subject(s)

• Muslim scholars—Certification—History—15th century—Sources [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Summary note

Elegant copy of a treatise in verse on the ten readings of the Qurʼān. This copy contains an autograph ijāzah by the author (fol. 105b ; see mention at the end of the title, fol. 2a).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• Incipit: قال محمد هو ابن الجزرى يا ذا الجلال ارحمه واستر واغفر الحمد لله على ما يسره من نشر منقول حروف العشرة ... وبعد فالانسان ليس يشرف الا بما يحفظه ويعرف
• Explicit: وليسمح الوجه بها والحمد مع الصلوة قبله وبعد وههنا تمّ نظام الطيبة [105أ] الفية سعيدة مهذبه بالروم من شعبان وسط سنة تسع وتسعين وسبعمائة وقد اجزتها لكل مقري كذا اجزت كل من فى عصرى رواية يشرطها المعتبر وقاله محمد بن الجزرى يرحمه بفضله الرحمن فظنه من جوده الغفران
• 10 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Fol. 2 consists of two leaves pasted to one another. Short text on fol. 1a. Table of contents on fol. 1b. Table of abbreviations used in the text on fol. 2a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 432".
• Certification of reading written by the author, dated 826 H. on fol. 105b.
• Copy completed on 5 Ramaḍān 826 [Aug. 12, 1423] by Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Rūdāwarī (colophon, fol. 105b).

Binding note

Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Silver tooling and stamping. Marbled paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Provenance

Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 221

Other format(s)

• Microfilm negative available for reproduction.
• Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

133171217

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