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. 633H [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• headpieces (layout features) [Browse]

Summary note

A treatise on the readings, orthography and compilation of ʻUthmānʼs Korans.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Apparently this is the only copy known.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 84 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 12 lines per page ; frame-ruled in gold, blue and black.
• Description: Rubricated ; gold overlining and other markings on opening spread, and in red through remainder of the MS ; MS in good condition except worm-eaten.
• Decoration: Elaborate illuminated headpiece of gold, blue, white and orange with the basmalah in silver/grey.
• Origin: Probably late XVIth century.
• Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي شرفنا بالايمان وعززنا بالاسلام والاحسان وخصصنا بغير كتاب هو ال فرقان ... وبعد فلا يخفي على ذوى البصائر والاتقان ان معرفة رسوم المصاحف ...
• Colophon: بالواو في الباب السادس والله اعلم والحمد لله رب العالمين تمت م

Binding note

Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Gold-stamped mandorla and gold-tooled decorative edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1244.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Other title(s)

زبدة البيان في رسم القرآن العظيم

Title on lower edge of text block

• Zubdat al-bayān fī rasm al-Qurʼān al-ʻaẓīm

OCLC

1340425759

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