Details

Subject(s)

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

Related record(s)

• Tafsīr gharāʼib al-Qurʼān wa-bayān lughātih.
• Asʼilat al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm.

Summary note

Collection of two treatises on Qurʼānic sciences, the first by Muḥammad ibn ʻUzayr al-Sijistānī, explaining difficult words used in the Qurʼān, arranged in alphabetical order, the second, by Muḥammad ibn Abū Bakr al-Rāzī. These texts are followed on fol. 162b-163b by a short text in Persian.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger, from heading of text 1 (fol. 5a) and colophon of text 2 (fol. 162a).
• 29 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. The last letters of some words at the end of a line are written on the margin. Red circle text-stops. Dark cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible. The text is framed within one single red line on fol. 6a. Foliation in Arabic numerals (starts with "2" on fol. 6a, the first original leaf). Fol. 1 and 2-5, 15, 47, 164-165 and 166 are later additions on European glazed paper with watermark of several types. Fol. 2a-4b have a red single line frame, with portions of a table of contents on fol. 3b and 4b. Fol. 47 b has a Table of contents for Text 2. Fol. 164a-166b: blank. Title on the tail of the text block (illegible).
• Several inscriptions on the pastedown of the upper cover: "A259" (label; in Roman script); "158 Bl." (in Roman script) ; "... 140" (in Arabic script). Inscription in pencil on fol. 1a: "Raqm 82" (in Arabic script).
• Copied by Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ; first text completed on 19 Ramaḍān 740 [March 19, 1340] ; second text completed on 25 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 740 [May 23, 1340] (colophons, fol. 48a and 162a).

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Both covers have a central stamped mandorla and a border consisting of fillets. Similar border on envelope flap. Yellow paper doublure. Fore-edge flap damaged (paper of pasteboard visible).

Provenance

Ownership statement dated 1254 H. [1838 or 9] on fol. 5a. Reading statements on fol. 1a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 149, 387

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

132692354

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