Details

Subject(s)

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

Scribe

• ʻUmar ibn Ḥamzah, active 14th century [Browse]

Related name

• عمر بن حمزة، active 14th century [Browse]
• سمين، احمد بن يوسف، -1355 [Browse]
• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 671H [Browse]

Attributed name

• Samīn, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf, -1355 [Browse]

Donor

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Summary note

Grammatical analysis of a section of the Qurʼan dealing with Sūrat al-Baqarah, verse 10-Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (II:10- V).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from caption (fol. 1a).
• Marginal notes and glosses. Despite the attribution in the caption, while the text is very similar to a section of the work of Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Samīn, 756 [1355] entitled al-Durr al-maṣūn fī ʻulūm al-Kitāb al-maknūn, it varies considerably. Fāʼidah on folio 146b.
• Collation: Paper ; fol. 146 ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
• Layout: 25 lines per page.
• Description: Vowel signs ; MS in good condition; stain and mended with some loss of legibility.
• Origin: According to colophon copied Tuesday 4 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 730 by ʻUmar ibn Ḥamzah (fol. 146a).
• Incipit: قوله تعالى في قلوبهم مرض. مرض رفع بالابتدا ...
• Colophon: ووافق الفراغ منه يوم الاثنين رابع ذي القعدة من سنة ثلاثين وسبعمائة على يد العبد الضعيف عمربن حمزة عفا الله عنه وعن جميع المسلمين امين

Binding note

Later quarter-bound type III (without flap) binding in red leather and brown marbled paper.

Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.

Source acquisition

Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.

References

Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1319.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

1349351743

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