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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Reading—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Astronomy—Charts, diagrams, etc [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Contains

• Sīstānī, ʻAlī ibn Qanbar. Khulāṣat al-qirāʼah. [Browse]
• سيستاني، علي بن قنبر. خلاصة القراءة. [Browse]

Summary note

Two texts on tajwīd followed by five astronomical diagrams.

Notes

• Ms. composite codex.
• On front cover: Label reading "9" in Arabic script.
• Ms. erroneously foliated 1-213 beginning on front endpaper. Record follows erroneous numbering.
• Physical description:
• Text 1: 20 lines per page; written in ruqʻah in black on modern European paper. Arabic quotations in naskh and overlined in red. Headings, keywords, and markings in red; examples overlined in red. Catchwords. Title on fol. 2b in blue. Fol. 204b-205b blank.
• Texts 2-3: 23-24 lines per page; written in ruqʻah in black on glazed, laid European paper. Examples in naskh and overlined in red. Headings and keywords in red. Catchwords and some marginal notes. Diagrams in black.
• Origin: Copy of text 1 completed by Mīrzā Muḥammad al-Farāhī 12 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1272 H. [14 August 1856] (fol. 204a). Copy of text 2 completed 1264 H. [1847 or 8] (fol. 210b).
• Incipit text 1: حمد بىحد و ثناى بىعد لاىق کرىمى و رحىمى است که از غاىت مکرمت و نهاىت مرحمت به بندگان ضعىفان و لقد کرمنا بنى آدم خطاب فرمود ...
• Incipit text 2: الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلوة والسلام على خير خلقه محمد ... اما بعد فيقول الفقير الى الله الغني ابن قنبر علي السيستاني محمد نبي و [---] الله للعهد في غده قبل ان يخرج الامر عن يده ...

Binding note

Contemporary full brown leather with faded handwritten inscriptions on front cover.

Language note

Persian and Arabic.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2b-204a: Irshād al-qārī / Ākhūnd Mullā Muṣṭafá. Title from fol. 2b; in Persian.
• 2. fol. 206a-210b: Khulāṣat al-qirāʼah / Ibn Qanbar ʻAlī al-Sīstānī. Title from fol. 206a; in Arabic.
• 3. fol. 211a-213a: [Astronomical diagrams].

References

• Āghā Buzurg. Dharīʻah (1936), I, 516
• Storey, C. A. Persian literature, I, 43 (71)

OCLC

711108862

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