al-Nawʻ al-awsaṭ min Kitāb Jamīlat arbāb al-marāṣid fī sharḥ ʻaqīlat atrāb al-qaṣāʼid - Jaʻbarī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar, 1242 or 1243-1331 or 1332.
Portion of a commentary on ʻAqīlat atrāb al-qaṣāʼid fī asná al-maqāṣid, known as al-Shāṭibīyah, a versification by al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1194) of al-Muqniʻ fī rasm maṣāḥif al-amṣār, a treatise on the orthography of the Qurʼān by ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd al-Dānī (d. 444/1053). The text is followed on fol. 75a-76b by a Faṣl fī bayān iṣṭilāḥ al-Nāẓim raḥimahu Allāh fī hādhā al-kitāb, presented as the third faṣl of the introduction of the original.
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Physical description: 17 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh (professional hand) in black and red ink; the text is vocalized. Thick dark cream paper, glossy, with chain and laid lines visible. Occasional marginal annotations. Modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals. Wear and stains on two first leaves, with loss of text.
Origin: According to colophon, copied for himself by Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá ibn Muḥammad al-Qaymarī on Monday 15 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 703 [July 19, 1304] from an autograph (fol. 75a).
Two ownership statements on fol. 1a, one in the name of Ibrāhīm ʻAlī Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī al-Sikandarī dated 1295 H. [1878], the other in the name of Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-[---] known as Ibn al-Ghazzī(?), dated [--]53 H. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Quarter bound with flap in dark brown leather and yellow paper. Paper pastedowns.
Keywords: Manuscripts, Arabic -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscrits arabes -- New Jersey -- Princeton; Manuscripts, Arabic; New Jersey -- Princeton; Qurʼan -- Orthography -- Early works to 1800.; Qurʼan; Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh, -- 1144-1194.; Manuscripts, Arabic -- 14th century; Early works; manuscripts (documents)