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كتاب الاعلان بالمختار من روايات القرآن في القراءات السبع / تصنيف ابي القسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد المجيد بن اسماعيل بن عثمن بن يوسف بن الحسين بن حفص بن الصفراوي.
Kitāb al-Iʻlān bi-al-mukhtār min riwāyāt al-Qurʼān fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ / taṣnīf Abī al-Qasim [sic] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd ibn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUthman [sic] ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥifṣ ibn al-Ṣafrāwī.
1200-1299
A treatise on the readings of the Koran, comparing the seven readings which have been handed down singly and which do not conform to the common usage of speech and analogy.
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- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- People
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- Author
- Ṣafrāwī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd, 1149-1238 or 1239
- صفراوي، عبد الرحمن بن عبد المجيد، 1149-1238 or 1239
- Related Name
- Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 611H
- Language
- Arabic
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Item Summary
A treatise on the readings of the Koran, comparing the seven readings which have been handed down singly and which do not conform to the common usage of speech and analogy.
Descriptive Information
- Title
- كتاب الاعلان بالمختار من روايات القرآن في القراءات السبع / تصنيف ابي القسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد المجيد بن اسماعيل بن عثمن بن يوسف بن الحسين بن حفص بن الصفراوي.
- Transliterated Title
- Kitāb al-Iʻlān bi-al-mukhtār min riwāyāt al-Qurʼān fī al-qirāʼāt al-sabʻ / taṣnīf Abī al-Qasim [sic] ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAbd al-Majīd ibn Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUthman [sic] ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥifṣ ibn al-Ṣafrāwī.
- Call Number
- Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 611H
- Identifier
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc9s161h80k
- Publisher
- [13th century?]
- Language
- Arabic
- Date Created
- 1200-1299
- Format
- Manuscript
- Extent
- 238 pages : paper ; 187 x 137 (150-160 x 105-111) mm bound to 188 x 136 mm.
- Provenance
- Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
- Source Acquisition
- Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
- References
- Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1207.
- Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), I, p. 365.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title from fol. 1a.
- Evidently the last folio, containing the closing words of the colophon, is missing. The first two folios were supplied by a different hand. The title appears on the lower edge of the text block. Two inscriptions on the two folios after colophon.
- Collation: Paper ; p. 238 ; modern pagination in pencil using Western numerals.
- Layout: 22 lines per page.
- Description: Vowel signs ; lacking some iʻjām diacritical marks ; MS in good condition, mended.
- Origin: Probably from the XIII century. MS is rare.
- Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم باب ذکر مذاهب القرآ في الوقف علي مرسوم الخط وبيان ما احتلفوا فيه من ذلك اعلم وفقنا الله واياك ان الذين وردعتهم الوفق علي مرسوم الخط خمسة وهم نافع وابو عمرو الكوفيون عاصم وحمزه والكساي ...
- Colophon: قال الشيخ الفقيه الامام العالم الکامل الحافظ القايم بامر التنزيل جمال الدين مفتي المسلمين اوحد المتکلمين قدوة اهل عصره جمال عهده ابو القسم عبدالرحمن بن الشيخ الاجل ابي محمد عبدالمجيد بن الصفراوي المصنف وفقه الله
- Binding Note
- Later type III (without flap) binding in brown leather. Blind- and gold-stamped and tooled circular design with pendants and decorative edging. Leather doublures. Multi-colored endbands. Repairs to the spine.
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 246
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
- Manuscripts of the Islamic World
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/0db88b2d-cec4-4097-a364-478e6f4cf1da/manifest