Details

Subject(s)

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

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 595H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

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

Summary note

An introduction to the science of the Koran.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from colophon (fol. 1a).
• A few marginal notes. Inscriptions on fol. 1a including records of the birth of Muḥammad Rāghib and Zāhidah, both born in Ṣafar '69. Folios 1-95 are by one hand and 96-113 by another.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 113 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 19-30 lines per page.
• Description: Written in Fārisī and general script ; rubricated ; on three different kinds of paper ; watermarks (crown?; anchor) ; MS in good condition.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم عليك اعتمادى يا كريم قال الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة الحبر البحر ... السيوطى ... الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الکتاب تبصرة لاولى الالباب واودعه من فنون العلم والعجب العجايب ...
• Colophon: انتهى بنا القول فيما أردناه من هذا الکتاب والله الموفق للصواب.م

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Red paper pastedowns partially torn away to reveal marbled paper beneath. Spine repaired with red leather. Binding damaged.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Fārisī.

Provenance

Ownership signature of Muḥammad al-Barqāwī with his seal impression (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1227.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, pp. 151/2.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, pp. 120/1.
• Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium (1846), 93.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 423/4.
• Catalogus codicum arabicorum Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae, 1694.
• Catalogue des manuscrits arabes de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 656-8.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

كتاب الاتقان في علوم القرآن

Title from colophon

• Kitāb al-Itqān fī ʻulūm al-Qurʼān

OCLC

1340422131

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