Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Rashīdī, Muḥammad ibn Salāmah, active 19th century [Browse]

Related name

• رشيدي، محمد بن سلامة، active 19th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 627H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work treating of certain points of pronunciation in reading the Koran, namely the imālah in the pause and in the middle of a phrase.

Notes

• Marginal notes and glosses. Inscription and lines of poetry on title page.
• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 30 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet text "Andrea Galvani, Pordenone"; double-headed eagle) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 4 Muḥarram 1289 by Muḥammad Salāmah ibn Salāmah ibn ʻAbd al-Khāliq ibn Ḥasan, known as al-Jamal (fol. 30a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبه ثقتي قال الشيخ الامام ... نور الدين ابو البقا علي بن عثمان ... اما بعد حمدالله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين واله وصحبه اجمعين فهذه رسالة سميتها قرة العين ...
• Colophon: کان الفراغ منها في يوم الاربعاء المبارك الموافق لاربع ايام فاتت من شهر محرم الحرام افتتاح سنة الف ومائتين وتسعة وثمانين من هجرة من له المجد والشرف وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1215.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 511.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 109.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 549/50.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421999

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