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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Glossaries, vocabularies, etc—10th century [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Criticism, Textual—10th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

Treatise explaining difficult words used in the Qurʼān, arranged in alphabetical order.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 2a).
• 15 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for headings and text-stops. The text is vocalized. Cream paper with pulp and laid lines visible. Fibers visible on the surface. Occasional marginal annotations, some in Persian (see fol. 127b). Foliation in black ink using Arabic numerals. On fol. 1b: Family tree of the prophet Muḥammad. On fol. 129b: Ṣūrat al-ḥamd al-ṣaghīr.
• Inscription in Roman script on fol. 1b: "Y91".
• Collation: Paper, fol. 130, i ; 1¹⁰ (fol. 1 consists of two leaves pasted on one another) 2-13¹⁰ + i (later added endpaper) ; the quires are numbered using Arabic ordinals in the form "thānī" (see fol. 11a) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf, apparently by a later hand.
• Copy completed on 6 Rajab 709 by ʻAlī ibn Aydughmush(?) al-Khalīlī al-Bikāwī [Dec. 10, 1309] (colophon, fol. 127b).
• Incipit: الحمد لله حمدًا يوافي نعمه ويكافيء مزيده سبحانه لا نحصي ثنا عليه هو كما اثنى على نفسه فله الحمد حتى يرضا قال ابو بكر محمد بن العزيز السجستانى هذا تفسير غريب القران المولف على حروف المعجم ليقرب تناوله ويسهل تحفظه على من اراد ذلك وبالله التوفيق وهو حسبي ونعم الوكيل باب الهمزة المفتوحة الم ساير حروف الهجا فى اوايل السور
• Explicit: الياء المكسورة قيل ليس فى كلام العرب كلمة اولها يا مكسورة الّا يِسار ويَسار لليد تم الكتاب بحمد الله وفضله ومنه

Binding note

Brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, with deep sunk central stamped mandorla and outer border consisting of fillets. Paper doublure.

Provenance

Several ownership statements on fol. 2a. Waqf statement in the name of al-Ḥājj Muṣṭafá al-ʻAlamī(?), dated 15 Shawwāl 1245 [April 9, 1830]. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Mach, R. Yahuda, 149

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

Other title(s)

تفسير غريب القرآن للسجستاني

Title on tail of text block

• Tafsīr gharīb al-Qurʼān lil-Sijistānī

OCLC

132695525

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