Item Summary

Elegant copy of a treatise in verse on the ten readings of the Qurʼān. This copy contains an autograph ijāzah by the author (fol. 105b ; see mention at the end of the title, fol. 2a).

Descriptive Information

Title
كتاب طيبة النشر في القراءات العشر / تأليف الامام المقري الشيخ محمد ابن الجزري
Transliterated Title
Kitāb Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Muqrī al-Shaykh Muḥammad Ibn al-Jazarī.
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 1411Y
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/gh93h212s
Publisher
[1423]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1423
Extent
i, 106, i leaves: paper ; 180 x 110 (135 x 70) mm. bound to 182 x 115 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Mach, R. Yahuda, 221
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 2a).
Incipit: قال محمد هو ابن الجزرى يا ذا الجلال ارحمه واستر واغفر الحمد لله على ما يسره من نشر منقول حروف العشرة ... وبعد فالانسان ليس يشرف الا بما يحفظه ويعرف
Explicit: وليسمح الوجه بها والحمد مع الصلوة قبله وبعد وههنا تمّ نظام الطيبة [105أ] الفية سعيدة مهذبه بالروم من شعبان وسط سنة تسع وتسعين وسبعمائة وقد اجزتها لكل مقري كذا اجزت كل من فى عصرى رواية يشرطها المعتبر وقاله محمد بن الجزرى يرحمه بفضله الرحمن فظنه من جوده الغفران
10 lines per page. Written in medium large naskh in black ink with use of red. Light cream paper with laid lines visible. Marginal annotations. Fol. 2 consists of two leaves pasted to one another. Short text on fol. 1a. Table of contents on fol. 1b. Table of abbreviations used in the text on fol. 2a. Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the upper cover: "Qirāʼāt 6". Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the pastedown of the upper cover: "Ḥāʼ 432".
Certification of reading written by the author, dated 826 H. on fol. 105b.
Copy completed on 5 Ramaḍān 826 [Aug. 12, 1423] by Muḥammad al-Qārī al-Rūdāwarī (colophon, fol. 105b).
Binding Note
Dark brown leather over paper pasteboards for upper and lower covers, fore-edge flap and envelope flap. Silver tooling and stamping. Marbled paper pastedowns and free endpaper.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
115

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

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