Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise on sciences of the Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• 27 lines per page. Written in small naskh in black ink with use of red. European glazed paper with watermark. Small piece of paper with inscriptions and short excerpts between fol. 5 and 6.
• Collation: Paper, fol. 107 ; 1¹⁰ (-1, before fol. 1) 2-10¹⁰ 11¹⁰ (-2, after fol. 107) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf.
• Copy completed by Sulaymān al-Dāʼūdī on 9 Jumādá al-Thānīyah 1057 [July 12, 1647] (colophon, fol. 107a).
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الكتاب تبياما لكل شي ... وبعد فقد قال الله تعالى ونزلنا عليك الكتاب تبيانا لكل شي وقال ما فرطنا في الكتاب من شي
• Explicit:المنادى المنذر الناس النبى النجم الثابت الندير نعمة الله النور الهدى الولي يس وصلى الله وسلم عليه وعلى اله وصحبه وسلم يا رب العالمين امين تم الكتاب

Binding note

Paper on paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers. Brown leather spine and borders. Paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership statement signed Muḥammad Abū al-Saʻūd ibn Sulaymān al-Dāʼūdī, who acquired the ms. from his father. Two ownership statements, signed Muṣṭafá Abū al-Saʻūd al-Dāʼūdī and ʻUmar Abū al-Saʻūd al-Dāʼūdī al-Anṣārī on fol. 107b. Several reading statements on fol. 1a, signed ʻAbd Allāh and al-Malik ʻUbayd Allāh ; ʻAbd al-[---?]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Mach, R. Yahuda, 401
• Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, 75
• Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī, 4

Other format(s)

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

OCLC

77572208

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