[Collection of Arabic texts on the Qurʼān]

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Manuscript, Book
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Arabic
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[18th century]
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233 leaves : paper ; 208 x 151 (167 x 100-105) mm. bound to 209 x 155 mm.

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    A collection of works on Qurʼanic reading and recitation.
    Notes
    • Ms. composite codex.
    • Title supplied by cataloger.
    • Marginal notes and glosses. Title on lower edge of text block: Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt[?].
    • 6. fol. 70a-224a: Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ ʻan aʼimmat al-amṣār al-sabʻah / taʼlīf Abī ʻAmr ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd ibn ʻUthmān ibn al-Muqrī al-Dānī. A work on the various readings of the seven early Qurʼan readers.
    • 7. fol. 225b-232a: [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation] An anonymous treatise on the chanting of the Koran.
    • Collation: Paper ; fol. 233 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
    • Layout: 9-21 lines per page.
    • Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; watermarks (fol. 1-4: coat of arms topped by a crown with roman-alphabet letters "GM"; fol. 4-12: coat of arms with sextant; fol. 16-69: three crescents; fol. 70-224: [unidentified circular mark], cross on three hills with roman-alphabet letters "AC") ; MS in fair condition.
    • Origin: According to colophon copied Thursday [Dhū] al-Qaʻdah 1128 (fol. 232a).
    • Incipit: [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation 1] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعلم ان حروف المد ثلاثة الالف الساكنة ما قبلها مثله مثل قال والواو الساكنة المضموم ... -- [المقدمة الجزرية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يقول راجى عفو رب سامع محمد ابن الجزري الشافعي الحمد لله وصلى الله على نبيه ومصطفاه ... -- [كتاب التعريف] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذى علم ادم الاسما كلها ... وبعد فانى قصدت ان اذكر في هذا المختصر الوجيز ما تضمنه كتاب الله العزيز من ذكر من لم يسم فيه باسمه العلم ... -- [كتاب التيسير] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله المتفرد بالدوام والمتطول بالانعام ... -- [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation 2] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ... وبعد فهذه رسالة تتعلق بالتجويد ...
    • Explicit: [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation 1] فهذه كلها تمت جمعيا بحمد الله رب العالمين وصلى خالفي في كل يوم على خير البريه اجمعينا مجمد بن المطهر بن قريش وعثرنه الهداه الطيبينا وكل الال والاصحاب طرا ومن ولي وكل التابعينا -- [المقدمة الجزرية] تم الصلاه والسلام على نبى المصطفى واله وصحبه ومن على منواله -- [كتاب التعريف] ... وسلم يسلما كثير الى يوم الدين على جميع ... -- [كتاب التيسير] وبالله التوفيق وصلى على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم -- [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation 2] تمت الرسالة بحمد الله وعونه وحسن توفيقته وكان الفراغ من رقمها نهار الخميس ... القعده الحرام سنة 1128 والحمد له رب العالمين امين ام م م م
    Binding note
    Contemporaneous? type II (with flap) binding in red leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-stamped and -tooled decorative frame and edging on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap edge. Cover loose. Not currently sewn.
    Contents
    • 1. fol. 1a-4a: [Treatise on Qurʼanic recitation] An anonymous metrical essay in fifty-six verses with a prose introduction on the pauses in the Qurʼan according to the school of al-Sajāwandī, ca. 560 [1164/5].
    • 2. fol. 4b-12a: al-Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah. An ode on the chanting of the Qurʼan by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī.
    • 3. fol. 12b-15b: [Inscriptions and poetry]
    • 4. fol. 16a-69a: Kitāb al-Taʻrīf wa-al-iʻlām fīmā ubhima fī al-Qurʼān min al-asmāʼ wa-al-aʻlām / Abī al-Qasim [sic] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī al-Ḥasan al-Suhaylī al-Ḥ[..]mī. A work explaining the general expressions in the Qurʼan which are intented to designate definite persons or things, the proper names which have been handed down by tradition. They are taken in the order in which they are found in the text, the names of the respective Sūrahs forming the rubrics.
    • 5. fol. 69b: [Inscriptions]
    • 8. fol. 232b-233a: [Fawāʼid]
    Provenance
    Ownership signatures: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf, Ḥasan ... ibn ʻAbd Allāh (fol. 16a); Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Hindūstānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (fol. 70a). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
    Source acquisition
    Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
    References
    • Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 2067.
    • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt (1299 AH), I, p. 501
    • Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), II, p. 319.
    • Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 720.
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    تيسير في القراءات
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    • Taysīr fī al-qirāʼāt
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    1340422502
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