Details

Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Abū ʻAmr ibn al-ʻAlāʼ 689 or 690-770 or 771 [Browse]
• Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 617H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

• Jaʻbarī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar, 1242 or 1243-1331 or 1332. Tadhhīb al-ummīyah fī tahdhīb al-Shāṭibīyah. Selections. [Browse]
• جعبري، ابراهيم بن عمر، 1242 or 1243-1331 or 1332. تذهيب الامية في تهذيب الشاطبية. مختارات. [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the reading of the Koran according to Abū ʻAmr ibn al-ʻAlaʼ al-Baṣrī, one of the seven early readers of the Koran.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. On the title page and on the back of the colophon is a fragment of Tadhhīb al-ummīyah fī tahdhīb al-Shāṭibīyah by Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar al-Jaʻbarī which is a metrical commentary on al-Shāṭibīyah by Ibn Fīrruh al-Shāṭibī. Other short inscriptions on the title page include an extract from Ibn al-Jazarī.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 50 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; frame-ruled in red.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (shield with a face-in-the-moon, roman-alphabet letters "AG") ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied 10 Shaʻbān 1279 (fol. 50a).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يقول العبد الفقير الى الله تعالى الشيخ الامام العالم ... سراج الدين ابو الحفص عمر بن ... قاسم ... وبعد فقد سألني جماعة من اصدقائي وفضنى الله واداهم لما يجب ...
• Colophon: تم في اليوم العاشر من شعبان الواقع في سنة 1279 تسعة وسبعين و[مائتين] وألف

Binding note

Unbound.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1226.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, p. 562.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 104.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 639.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424025

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