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Subject(s)

• Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Scribe

• Miʻmār, ʻAlī Nūr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn, active 16th century [Browse]

Related name

• معمار، علي نور الدين بن محمد بدر الدين، active 16th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 609H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the various readings of the Koran, being a kind of commentary on al-Shāṭibīyah. Primarily in the form of tables attributing readings to specific Qurʼanic scholars.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page for part 2 (fol. 4a).
• Marginal summaries. Inscriptions (fol. 1a). Table of abbreviations for the Qurʼanic scholars cited in the text and a chart of their scholarly antecedents (fol. 2b-3a). Table of contents for al-qism 2 (fol. 3b). Notes continue after the colophon and on the subsequent folio.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 27 lines per page ; frame-ruled in black with most pages consisting of an inner grid of red boxes 4 x 7 or 6 x 10.
• Description: Written in black and red ink ; MS in good condition; stained.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Monday 28 Shawwāl 991 by ʻAlī Nūr al-Dīn ibn Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn ibn al-Miʻmār (fol. 49a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وعليه توكلي هو حسبي وكفي وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد الحمد لله الذي انطق السنت جملة القران بتذكار تكرار بيان بنيان القران العظيم ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من کتابته نهار الاثنين ثامن عشرين شهر شوال المبارك من شهور سنة احد[ى] وتسعين وتسعمائة على يد اضعف العباد الفقير الحقير الى الله تعالى علي نورالدين بن محمد بدر الدين بن المعمار غفرالله له ولوالديه ولجميع المسلمين اجمعين امين والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما

Binding note

Later? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped circular motif on covers. Blind-tooled edging on covers and flap. Purple paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1204.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, pp. 365/6.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340425128

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