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. 604H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Dānī, ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd, 981 or 982-1053. Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ. [Browse]
• داني، عثمان بن سعيد، 981 or 982-1053. تيسير في القراءات السبع. [Browse]

Summary note

An abridgment of al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ. This present work covers three additional readings.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from beginning of text (fol. iia).
• Marginal notes and glosses; marginal summaries. Folios 28-39 are on different paper and in a different hand.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 70 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23-24 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; text overlined in red ; watermarks (fol.1-27: three hats, countermark with roman-alphabet letters "AO[?]" with a clover; fol. 28-39: eagle? or coat-of-arms?) ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: کتاب تحبير التيسير في القرا آت العشرة تأليف الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة ... الجزرى الشافعى ... قال الشيخ الفاضل العلامة الافضل المتاخرين الكمل ...
• Ending: الله اکبر. سقطت الف الوصل التي في اول اسم الله عز وجل في جميع ذلك استغناء عنها فاعلم ذلك موفقا لطريق الصواب. تمت [تم] الکتاب. م

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and tan paper. Fols. 28-39 glued in rather than sewn in like the other quires.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Būyʹābādī with seal impression reading "Ḥasan"; Imām of Masjid Mahānī Khātūn in al-Uskudar [Üsküdar, Turkey] dated [1]290 with seal impression reading "ʻabduhu al-Sayyid Ḥāfiẓ Sulaymān" (fol. ia). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1192.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 488
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 92/3.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 590.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

تحبير مع تيسير

Title on flyleaf

• Taḥbīr maʻa Taysīr

OCLC

1340425240

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