Item Summary

A work on the pauses to be observed in the reading of the Koran.

Descriptive Information

Title
الايضاح في الوقف والابتدى / لسجوندي.
Transliterated Title
al-Īḍāḥ fī al-waqf wa-al-ibtidāʼ / li-Sajwandī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 628H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcfj236c74m
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Extent
96 leaves : paper ; 182 x 139 (120 x 96) mm. bound to 180 x 146 mm.
Provenance
Ownership signature: Najm al-Dīn ibn al-Murt[...] (lower pastedown). Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1193.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), V, p. 170.
Die arabischen, persischen und türkischen handschriften der Kaiserlich-königlichen hofbibliothik zu Wien, 1625.
A catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 46.
Die arabischen hanschriften der Königlichen Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in Muenchen, 100.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from caption (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. MS incomplete at the beginning and probably at the end also.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 96 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 13 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; some vowel signs ; tinted paper at beginning of first few quires ; MS in fair condition.
Origin: MS probably from late XVth century.
Incipit: الوقف عليه ايضا لکون الفاء في فاتقوا جواب الجزاء ومعني ولن تفعلوا ابدا ...
Colophon: تم کتاب ايضاح الوقف والابتداء والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وآله وصحبه
Binding Note
Type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-tooled circular central medallion with gold dots and decorative frame on covers. Similar decoration on flap and flap edge. Pink paper pastedowns. Sewing holes, but not currently sewn.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
203

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7e3d3161-4768-4275-9877-e5e644a3f2d4/manifest