Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 628H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Autographs [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Colored papers (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the pauses to be observed in the reading of the Koran.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. MS incomplete at the beginning and probably at the end also.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 96 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 13 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; tinted paper at beginning of first few quires ; MS in fair condition.
• Origin: MS probably from late XVth century.
• Incipit: الوقف عليه ايضا لکون الفاء في فاتقوا جواب الجزاء ومعني ولن تفعلوا ابدا ...
• Colophon: تم کتاب ايضاح الوقف والابتداء والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled circular central medallion with gold dots and decorative frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap edge. Pink paper pastedowns. Sewing holes, but not currently sewn.

Provenance

Ownership signature: Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Murt[...] (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1193.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 170.
• Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1625.
• A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 46.
• Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 100.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

ايضاح الوقف

Title from upper edge of text block

• Īḍāḥ al-waqf

OCLC

1340425707

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