Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 596H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

A work on the merit attached to the recitation of the Koran, of the regard due to the men who hand it down, and of the rules to be observed in reading, teaching and transcribing the sacred book.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes and glosses. On three folios after the text are a calendar-based numerology chart in Persian, an account from Abī al-ʻAbbās about Jews in Syria and a short inscription about the concept of plague being a blessing (fol. 83b-84a)
• Collation: Paper ; fol. iii + 84 + 5 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 15 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (later endpaper only: crown-star-crescent) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: MS probably belongs to the XVth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله ... الحمد لله الکريم المنان ذي الطول والفضل حسان الذى هدانا للايمان ... اما بعد فان الله سبحانه وتعالى من على هذه الامه زادها الله تعالى ...
• Colophon: قال مصنفه رحمه الله فرغت من جمعه صبيحة الخميس الثالث من شهر ربيع الآخر من سنة ست وستين وستمائة 666 والحمد لله رب العالمين. م

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap. Yellow paper pastedowns.

Provenance

Ownership signatures of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Mālikī dated 1286 and al-Sayyd Aḥmad ibn al-Sayyid Amīn ibn Quṭāybah (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1209.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 183/4.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, VII, pp. 180, 536.
• Rieu, Supplement of the catalogue of the Arabic Mss, 1206².
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1636.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 614-20.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340420748

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