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. 605H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands [Browse]
• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [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

Versification of al-Dānīʼs al-Taysīr: Brockelmann, GAL, I, 520 (12: no.l); S I, 725.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 58 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 11 lines per page in two columns ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; full vowel signs ; watermarks (animal, countermark with roman-alphabet letters "AF" with a clover) ; MS in very good condition except some pages mended.
• Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold, blue, red and black. Gold sections have a pattern created with indentations. Fols. 1b and 2a frame-ruled in gold and blue.
• Origin: Probably 19th century (Imām Shāmil).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بدأت ببسم الله فى النظم اولا تبارك رحمانا رحيما وموئلا ... وبعد فحبل الله فينا كتابه فجاهد به حبل العدى متحبلا ...
• Ending: فعولن مفاعل بغير تناه زر نبا وقر نفلا

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants outlined in gold and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Marbled paper pastedowns. Multi-colored endbands.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1196.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421124

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