[Arabic text on the compilation and readings of the Qurʼān].

Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Description
73 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (150 x 80) mm bound to 204 x 150 mm.

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Summary note
A work on the compilation and the various readings of the Koran.
Notes
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • MS incomplete at the beginning. The work is possibly Mukhtaṣar al-nashr, the abridgment by Ibn al-Jazarī, 833 [1429] of his own al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr. Label on upper cover: "F.G A".
  • Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
  • Layout: 19 lines per page.
  • Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star; other unidentified with countermark roman-alphabet initials) ; MS in good condition.
  • Beginning: في الميم اذا لقيت مثلها اوباء و فى الباء اذا لقيت مثلها ... باب ذکر هاء الكناية ...
  • Colophon: وبالله التوفيق واليه المرجع والمآب. تم
Binding note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Yellow paper pastedowns. Flap is missing.
Language note
Arabic;
Script
Fārisī.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
  • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1250.
  • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 658.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
OCLC
1457973026
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