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. 611H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Leather doublures [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the readings of the Koran, comparing the seven readings which have been handed down singly and which do not conform to the common usage of speech and analogy.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a.
• Evidently the last folio, containing the closing words of the colophon, is missing. The first two folios were supplied by a different hand. The title appears on the lower edge of the text block. Two inscriptions on the two folios after colophon.
• Collation: Paper ; p. 238 ; modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 22 lines per page.
• Description: Vowel signs ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; MS in good condition, mended.
• Origin: Probably from the XIII century. MS is rare.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باب ذکر مذاهب القرآ في الوقف علي مرسوم الخط وبيان ما احتلفوا فيه من ذلك اعلم وفقنا الله واياك ان الذين وردعتهم الوفق علي مرسوم الخط خمسة وهم نافع وابو عمرو الكوفيون عاصم وحمزه والكساي ...
• Colophon: قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم الکامل الحافظ القايم بامر التنزيل جمال الدين مفتي المسلمين اوحد المتکلمين قدوة اهل عصره جمال عهده ابو القسم عبدالرحمن بن الشيخ الاجل ابي محمد عبدالمجيد بن الصفراوي المصنف وفقه الله

Binding note

Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind- and gold-stamped and tooled circular design with pendants and decorative edging. Leather doublures. Multi-colored endbands. Repairs to the spine.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1207.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 365.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424964

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