Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 631H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autographs [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the pause at the hamzah, according to the readings of Ḥamzah, 156 [772/3] and Hishām 153-245 [770-859].

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. [ii]b).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Calculations and title on preliminary leaf. Following the colophon and on the following 3 folios are a number of masāʼil (fol. 33a-34b)
• Collation: Paper ; fol. ii + 35 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 29 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (grapes, roman-alphabet letters "..NAN..") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 4 Rajab 1046 (fol. 33a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله النافذة قدرته القاطعة حجته العالية كلمته ... اما بعد فانك سئالتنى ايها الاخ الصايح النجيب الفايح ادام الله لك التوفيق وجعلك من اهل التحقيق ...
• Colophon: قد تمت المقدمة المنشورة بعون الله وتوفيقه في شهر رجب المرجب في اربعاء سنة ستة واربعين والف من الهجرة النبوية وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه اجمعين والحمد لله رب العالمين تمت. تمت

Binding note

Type II (with flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Green flyleaves.

Provenance

Ownership signature Muḥammad Ṭāhir ibn Muṣṭafá dated 12[5]1 (preliminary folio). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1216.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 106.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

• Kitāb Tuḥfat al-anām
• كتاب تحفة الانام

OCLC

1340425427

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