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Subject(s)

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

Contains

• Miṣrī, Yūsuf, active 17th century. ʻIqd-i gawhar. [Browse]
• مصرى، ىوسف، active 17th century. عقد گوهر. [Browse]
• Sharīf Qārī Astarābādī, ʻAlī. Tuḥfah-i Shāhī. [Browse]
• شرىف قارى استرابادى، على. تحفه شاهى. [Browse]

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Description based on Martinovitch catalog.
• Origin: Shaʻbān 1123 H [September-October 1711] (leaf 149a).

Language note

Persian.

Contents

• 1. leaves 1b-23b: ʻIqd-i gawhar / Yūsuf Miṣrī. A versified commentary on the Qurʼān written for Shāh ʻAbbās I in 1035 H [1625 or 1626]; beginning only.
• 2. leaves 24b-80b: Tuḥfah-i Shāhī / ʻAlī Sharīf Qārī Astarābādī. Treatise on Qurʼān recitation.
• 3. leaves 81a-84a: [Arabic theological fragments].
• 4. leaves 85b-149a: [Treatise on Qurʼān recitation].

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Provenance

Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).

Source acquisition

Gift; Robert Garrett (Class of 1897), 1942.

References

Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 447

OCLC

858873064

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