Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Ṣaʻīdī, ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• صعيدي، عبد الله ابراهيم، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 626H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the chanting of the Koran.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from text (fol. 1b).
• A few marginal notes. Index to the work (fol. 1b-3b). Kabīkaj (invocation against bookworms) on first and last flyleaves.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 60 + ii ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 23 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents; roman-alphabet letters "PG" and "AG"; two faces-in-the-moon) ; MS in good condition.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Wednesday 12 Muḥarram 1253 by ʻAbd Allāh Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaʻīdī for his teacher (fol. 60b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي انزل على عبده الکتاب ولم يجعل له عوجا والصلاة والسلام علي خير خلقه محمد وعلى اله دايما ابدا وبعد فيقول البايس الفقير محمد المرعشي الملقب بساجقلي زاده ...
• Colophon: تمت بحمد الله وعونه بيوم الاربع المبارك 12 في محرم سنة 1253 کتبها الفقير عبدالله ابراهيم الصعيدي لسيده ومولاه افخر السادات الثقات الذي جمع العلوم واحکم القراآت السيد الفاضل الشريف الزکي الکامل سيدي السيد عبدالله ابن السيد فهيد المکي عفي [عفا] الله عن الجميع

Binding note

Contemporaneous type II (with flap) binding in red/brown leather and yellow paper. Yellow paper pastedowns. Not sewn.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1237.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1347350829

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