Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• Qayrawānī, Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad, active 18th century [Browse]

Related name

• قيرواني، احمد بن احمد، active 18th century [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 618H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Watermarks (Paper) [Browse]

Contains

Köprülüzāde, Abdullah Paşa, approximately 1680-1735. Ifādah al-muqniʻah fī qirāʼāt al-aʼimmah al-arbaʻah. [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the Koran readings of the four imāms, Ibn Muḥayṣ al-Makkī, 123 [740/1], al-Aʻmash al-Kūfī, 148 [765/6], al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 21-110 [641/2-728] and Yaḥyá al-Yazīdi.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Before the colophon the copyist states that he is a pupil of the author. Corrections throughout the text.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 14 + i ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 20 lines per page.
• Description: Rubricated ; overlining in red ; watermarks (three crescents--two different types) ; MS in fair condition, staining throughout, uneven edges.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday 22 Jumādá al-Thānī 1202 in Tūnis by Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqāniṣī[?] al-Qayrawānī al-Qurayshī (fol. 113b).
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم صلى الله على رسوله محمد الحمد لله الذي ارشد خادم کتابه العزيز هاشم بن محمد المغربى ... من بعض كلمات القران المختلف فيها بين الائمة الاربعة المذكورين في الافادة المقنعة ...
• Colophon: وکان الفراغ من نسخه يوم الخميس من اثنين وعشرين في جماد[ى] الثاني سنة عامين وماتان [مائتين] والف من الهجرة النبوية على صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازکى التحية ورضي الله تعالى عن اصحاب رسوﻟ[ﻪ] اجمعين وعن التابعين وتابعيهم باحسان الى يوم الدين

Binding note

Type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging. Tan paper pastedown. Not sewn. Binding possibly re-used as it is considerably smaller than the text.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1238.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340421030

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