Details

Subject(s)

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

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 641H [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Headbands (Binding) [Browse]
• Autographs (Provenance) [Browse]
• Stamps (Provenance) [Browse]

Summary note

A work on the grammatical analysis of the difficult passages in the Koran. The work is otherwise known as Iʻrāb mushkilāt al-Qurʼān and also Mushkil gharīb al-Qurʼān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from title page (fol. 1a).
• Section 1 ends on fol. 111b; section 2 begins on folio 112a with "Mushkil Sūrat Maryam". Incomplete at end.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 209 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 21 lines per page.
• Description: Written in Maghribī script, folios 1-8 and 110 added later and written in generic script with vowel signs ; rubricated ; MS in fair condition, mended pages. Some staining and repairs affecting legibility.
• Origin: Probably from the XIIth century.
• Incipit: اما بعد حمد الله والثناء عليه بما هو اهله والصلاه على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وعلى اهله فاني رأيت افضل علم ...
• Ending: تم السفر الاول من مشكل الاعراب القران بحمد الله وعونه واحسانه ومنه -- وحذفت لسکونها وسکون الواو بعدها

Binding note

Later type II (with flap) binding in red leather and blue and gray marbled paper. Multi-colored endbands.

Language note

Arabic;

Script

Maghribī.

Provenance

Signature and two seal impressions (fol. 1a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

• Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1257.
• Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), II, p. 582.
• Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 560.
• Fihrist al-kutub al-ʻArabīyah al-maḥfūẓah bi-al-Kutubkhānah al-Khudaywīyah, I, p. 211.
• Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 703.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1340424461

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