Item Summary

Collection containing odes on the reading of the Qurʼan.

Descriptive Information

Title
الفية الطيبة ... [الخ.]
Transliterated Title
Alfīyah al-Ṭayyibah ... [etc.]
Call Number
Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 620H
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcv405sn436
Publisher
[15th century?]
Language
Arabic
Date Created
1400-1499
Format
Manuscript
Extent
69 leaves : paper ; 170 x 130 (133-145 x 90-100) mm bound to 168 x 140 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1900.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Hitti, P. Garrett Coll., 1253, 1211, 1213, 1222.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 172/3; VI, p. 416; IV, p. 304; III, pp. 208/9; IV, pp. 266/7;
Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften, 542, 659, 10236, 497, 679a
Suyūṭī, Naẓm al-ʻIqyān (1927), p. 123.
Ḥājjī Khalīfah, Kashf al-ẓunūn (1835-58), IV, pp. 172/3; VI, p. 416; IV, p. 304; III, pp. 208/9; IV, pp. 266/7;
Suyūṭī, Naẓm al-ʻIqyān (1927), p. 123.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1a: [Table of contents]
2. fol. 1b-32b: Alfīyah al-Ṭayyibah / li-Ibn al-Jazarī. Also known as Ṭayyibat al-nashr fī al-qirāʼāt al-ʻAshr, an ode of a thousand verses on the various readings of the Qurʼan.
3. fol. 33a-42b: Kitāb ʻAqīlat al-qaṣāyid fī asná al-Maqāṣid fī al-rasm / lil-Shaykh Abī al-Qāsim ibn Firruh al-Ruʻaynī thumma al-Shāṭibī. A versification of al-Muqniʻ, a treatise on the orthography of the Qurʼan by al-Dānī.
4. fol. 42b-45b: Kitāb al-Jazarīyah / lil-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jazarī. Also known as al-Muqaddimah al-Jazarīyah, an ode on the chanting of the Qurʼan.
5. fol. 46a-46b: ʻUmdat al-qurrā wa-ʻuddat al-iqrā / lil-Hamdānī. An ode on the difference between the letters ḍād and ẓāʼ in the Qurʼan.
6. fol. 46b-47b: Durrat al-qārī. An ode on the difference between the letters ḍād and ẓāʼ in the Qurʼan by ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Rasʻanī.
7. fol. 47b-49b: Qaṣīdah fī al-tajwīd / lil-Sakhāwī. Also known as ʻUmdat al-mufīd wa-ʻuddat al-mujīd, an ode on the chanting of the Koran by ʻAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī.
8. fol. 49b: Two verses of poetry by Fakhr al-Dīn ibn al-Faṣīḥ.
9. fol. 50a-50b: Hādhihi al-abyāt ʻalá wazan al-qaṣīdah / Taqī al-Dīn Yaʻqūb al-Dimashqī. On the poetic forms. Contains table.
10. fol. 51a-51b: Tajwīd al-basmalah / Jamāl al-Dīn ibn ʻAbd Allāh al-Armayūnī.
11. fol. 52a-57a: Qaṣīdah fī tajwīd al-Fātiḥah / lil-Imām al-Jaʻbarī. Wa-yalīhā Sharḥuhā. An ode in twenty-one verses on chanting the fātiḥah, followed by a commentary on it.
12. fol. 58a-68b: Ghāyat al-maṭlūb fī qirāʼāt Abī Jaʻfar wa-Khalaf wa-Yaʻqūb / naẓm al-Muqrī Zayn al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbbās. A metrical treatise on the reading of the Qurʼan according to Abū Jaʻfar [Muḥammad ibn ʻĪsá], 224/838-9, Khalaf [ibn Tamīm], 206/821-2 and Yaʻqūb [ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʻd], 208/824.
13. fol. 69a-69b: [Inscriptions]
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from table of contents (fol. 1a).
A few marginal notes. Table of contents on folio 1a. Folios 1-7 and 10 are on European paper and by a later hand. Edges were trimmed, and to preserve notes some were folded.
Collation: Paper ; fol. 69 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 17-25 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; vowel signs ; some paper tinted red ; several types of paper used ; MS in good condition.
Origin: Probably belongs to the XVth century.
Incipit: [الفية الطيبة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قال محمد هو ابن الجزري * ياذ الجلال رحمه واستر وافقر -- [كتاب عقيلة] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله موصولا كما امرا * مباركا طيبا يستنزل الدررا -- [كتاب الجزرية] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يقول راجي عفو رب سامع * محمد ابن الجزري الشافعى -- [عمدة القرآ] حفظت وعظا عظما مظهر الظفر * ظعنت يقطان عن ظلم علي تطر -- [درة القاري] حفظت وعظا عظيم الوعظ يوقظ من * ظما لظي وشواظ الحظر والوسن -- [قصيدة في تجويد] بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. بحمدك ربّي أول النظم ابتدي -- [شرح الواضحة] بسم الله ... قال الشيخ الامام العالم العامل الزاهد الناسك -- [غاية المطلوب] بسم الله الرحمن ... حمدت اله الخلق حمدا مکملا
Colophon: [قصيدة في تجويد] تمت القصيدة بحمدالله وعونه وحسن توفيقه وهو تجويد الفاتحة للجعبري وشرحها يتبعها والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وسلم تسليما کثيرا الى يوم الدين والحمد لله ربّ العالمين -- [شرح الواضحة] فهذا مايسرّ الله سبحانه وتعالى من الکلام على هذه القصيدة والحمد لله وحده وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد وسلم ورضي الله تعالى على اصحاب رسول الله اجمعين. تم. نهايته في سابع عشر جماد الاخرسنة 953 احسن الله ختامها وما بعدها -- [غاية المطلوب] بمکة تمت في صيام بشهره * لخمس خلت منه بعام مکملا * لرابع عشرين اتت بعد برهة * ثمان مئين عد يا صاح واعقلا * ثلث مآت احص مع اربع فزد * وخمسين زهرًا نلت فضلاً اخاالملا * وناظمها عبدالرحمن احمد * ابوه وعياش به ذکره علا * دمشق له اصل ومکة منزل * وطيبة يأتيها وقرآنه حلا * ولله حمدي والصلاة على النبي * مع الال والصحب الکرام ومن تلا. [و ] الحمد لله وسلم على عباده الذين اصطفى
Binding Note
Later type II (with flap) binding in brown leather and paper.

Discovery Information

Subject
Qurʼan—Readings—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan Sūrat al-Fātiḥah—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Recitation—Early works to 1800
Qurʼan—Orthography—Early works to 1800
Islamic poetry, Arabic—Early works to 1800
Jaʻbarī, Ibrāhīm ibn ʻUmar 1242 or 1243-1331 or 1332—Wāḍiḥah fī tajwīd al-Fātiḥah
Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
152

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b57e1eb7-1d4e-491a-8a37-c02556fab11f/manifest