Item Summary

Collection of two qaṣidah on matters pertaining to the different readings of the Qurʼān. The texts are followed by a reading certificate indicating that Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad, known as Ibn Dahanī read the Qurʼān or part of it according to the reading of such and such, signed Abū Muḥammad Sulaymān ibn Abī Bakr al-Muqriʼ al-Harawī, dated Aleppo, Rabīʻ al-Awwal 873 [1468]. After the date, addition by the same hand stating that he also read with him a qaṣīdah by Ibn al-Ḥararī, the Kitāb al-Ṭayyibah fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashar, and another reading of the Qurʼān, concluding on a ijāzah. On fol. 37b-38b: Short texts copied by Muḥammad al-Muqriʼ.

Descriptive Information

Title
عقيلة اتراب القصائد في اسنى المقاصد
Transliterated Title
ʻAqīlat atrāb al-qaṣāʼid fī asná al-maqāṣid ... [etc.].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 610H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/p2676v60g
Publisher
Aleppo, [1468]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1468
Format
Manuscript
Extent
38 leaves: paper ; 210 x 151 (137 x 100) mm. bound to 210 x 155 mm.
Provenance
Acquired by Robert Garrett from Brill, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett coll., 1205, 1208
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a-15a: Qaṣīdat al-Shaykh al-faqīh al-imām al-ʻālim al-ḥāfiẓ al-Muqriʼ Abī al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu al-mawsūmah bi-ʻAqīlat atrāb al-qaṣāʼid fī asná al-maqāṣid al-mutaḍamminah khaṭṭ al-Muṣḥaf al-muḥtawīyah ʻalá al-muqniʻ.
2. fol. 15b-35b: Qaṣīdat al-Shaykh al-faqīh al-imām al-ʻālim ʻAlam al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ʻAlī al-Sakhāwī.
3. fol. 36a-37a: Reading certificate.
4. fol. 37b-38b: [Two short texts].
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
11 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with. Thick light cream paper with pulp visible. Several inscriptions on fol. 1a. Short texts on the margins of fol. 35b. Title on the lower egde of the text block. Inscription in Roman script in black ink on the upper cover: "413" (corresponds to no. in Brill's list ; see Houtsma, M. Th. Catalogue d'une collection de manuscrits arabes et turcs, no. 610).
Copy of text 1 completed on 1 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 873 [Sept. 19, 1468] (colophon, fol. 15a). Copy of text 2 completed on 8 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 873 [Sept. 26, 1468] (colophon, fol. 35b).
Binding Note
Marbled paper pasted on brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Muslim scholars—Syria—Aleppo—History—15th century—Sources
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Aleppo (Syria)—Intellectual life—History—15th century—Sources
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800

Physical Characteristics

File Count
82

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/26ae62c2-1dcc-4264-be97-e633bfb8732d/manifest