Item Summary

Commentary on the Shāṭibīyah, a versification of the Taysīr li-ḥifẓ madhāhib al-qurrāʼ al-sabʻah by ʻUthmān ibn Saʻīd al-Dānī (d. 444/1053), on the readings of the Qurʼān. According to the end of this copy, the commentary was completed on 21 Rajab 884 [October 8, 1479] (fol. 70b).

Descriptive Information

Title
شرح الشاطبية / لسيدنا وشيخنا الامام العالم العامل الحافظ المجتهد جلال الدين ابو الفضل عبد الرحمن ابن الشيخ الامام العالم العلامة كمال الدين ابو المناقب ابي بكر السيوطي الشافعي
Transliterated Title
Sharḥ al-Shāṭibīyah / li-Sayyidnā wa-shaykhinā al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻāmil al-ḥāfiẓ al-mujtahid Jalāl al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl ʻAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-shaykh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Kamāl al-Dīn Abū al-manāqib Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī al-Shāfiʻī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 2207Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/vx021h73v
Publisher
[ 1497]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1497
Extent
i, 70, i leaves: paper ; 267 x 180 (203 x 135) mm. bound to 267 x 180 mm.
Provenance
Two reading statements on fol. 1a, signed Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, dated 915 [1509 or 10] and Muḥammad, dated 919 [1513 or 14]. Ownership statement obliterated dated 1028 [1618 or 19] (fol. 1a). Seal on fol. 51b. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 202
Iqbāl, A. al-Sharqāwī. Maktabat al-Jalāl al-Suyūṭī, no. 401
Shaybānī, M. Dalīl makhṭūṭāt al-Suyūṭī, no. 26
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
27 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper wih laid and chain lines. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a (mostly illegible). Inscription in Arabic numerals on the pastedown of the upper cover: "82".
Collation: Paper, fol. i, 70, i ; i (endleaf ; European paper with watermark "Tre lune"), 1-5¹⁰ 6⁴ (+1, fol. 55) 7¹⁰ 8⁴ (+1, fol. 66), i (endleaf; European paper with watermark) ; catchword on the verso of each leaf; the quires are numbered using arabic ordinals in the form "al-Thānī" (see fol. 11a).
Copy completed by Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Dāʼūdī al-Mālikī from an autograph on 5 Rabīʻ al-Thānī 903 [Dec. 1497] (colophon, fol. 70b).
Incipit: الحمد لله رافع اهل كتابه واشهد ان لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له تعظيما لجنابه ... هذا شرح لطيفة مزجته بقصيدة الامام ابى القاسم الشاطبى فى القرآات
Explicit: توفى الشيخ يوم الاحد ثامن عشرى جمادىي الاخرة سنة تسعين وخمسماية رضى الله عنه وغنابه قال مولفه سيدنا الشيخ ... جلال الدين ... فرغت هذا الشرح يوم الخميس حادي عشري رجب سنة اربع وثمانين وثمانمايه احسن الله عقباها بمنه وكرمه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد واله وصحبه وسلم تسليما دايما ابداً
Binding Note
Red leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Central blind stamped mandorla with an outer frame made of fillets and a running patten, with small flower stamps on the inner panel. Paper pastedowns.

Discovery Information

Subject
Dāwūdī, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī -1538 or 1539
Shāṭibī, al-Qāsim ibn Fīrruh 1144-1194—Ḥirz al-amānī wa-wajh al-tahānī
شاطبي، القاسم بن فيره—حرز الاماني ووجه التهاني
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
76

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/151fd1bd-c13b-44f1-ba1e-0bd72e21cf58/manifest