Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Arabic language—Versification—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Arabic alphabet—Symbolic aspects—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 406H [Browse]

Summary note

A collection of the verses in the Qurʼān which fall under the category of measured poetry.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Following the colophon occurs an incomplete work on the magical characteristics of the letters of the alphabet, "Khāṣṣīyat al-aḥruf", which covers 15 letters (fol. 7b-8b).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 8 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 17 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; MS in fair condition; worm-eaten and mended.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الذي جعل مقام الخليل اجل مقام
• Colophon: تم وکمل بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقه من خط المصنف عامله الله بلطفه الخفي بمحمد واله وهو حسبنا ونعم الوکيل

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 511.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 568.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 7159/60.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 39¹¹.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Khāṣṣīyat al-aḥruf.
• خاصية الاحرف.

OCLC

1317708342

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