Item Summary

A work on the compilation and the various readings of the Koran.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Arabic text on the compilation and readings of the Qurʼān].
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 205L
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc0c483x490
Language
Arabic
Format
Manuscript
Extent
73 leaves : paper ; 205 x 145 (150 x 80) mm bound to 204 x 150 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1250.
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 658.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
MS incomplete at the beginning. The work is possibly Mukhtaṣar al-nashr, the abridgment by Ibn al-Jazarī, 833 [1429] of his own al-Nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻashr. Label on upper cover: "F.G A".
Collation: Paper ; fol. 73 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 19 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (crown-star; other unidentified with countermark roman-alphabet initials) ; MS in good condition.
Beginning: في الميم اذا لقيت مثلها اوباء و فى الباء اذا لقيت مثلها ... باب ذکر هاء الكناية ...
Colophon: وبالله التوفيق واليه المرجع والمآب. تم
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla and blind-tooled edging on covers. Yellow paper pastedowns. Flap is missing.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton
Blind tooled bindings
Watermarks

Physical Characteristics

File Count
154

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/121e9641-75fd-4ca5-a9bd-9284170fd1cf/manifest