Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 603H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the various readings of the seven early Koran readers.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from inside of upper cover.
• A few marginal notes. MS incomplete at beginning and end. Title on lower edge of text block Tajwīd qirāʼat [sabʻah?].
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 118 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; MS in poor condition; worm-eaten and mended. Text illegible in a few places, especially beginning and end.
• Origin: MS probably belongs to the Xllth century.
• Incipit:عشر وماية وابن ذکوان [هو عبدالله بن احمد]
• Ending: ... ابو عمر ووحفص وابن ذکوان على الاول بالالف

Binding note

Later covering in double layer of re-used paper. Re-used manuscript text visible inside covers.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1191.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, pp. 487/8.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 94.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 579-89.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 84.
• Pertsch, Die orientalischen handschriften der Herzoglichen bibliothek zu Gotha, 550.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 41/2.
• Derenbourg, Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial, 1387.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻah
• كتاب التيسير في القراءات السبعة
• تجويد قراءت سبعة

Title on cover

• Tajwīd qirāʼat sabʻah

OCLC

1340421647

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